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H.R. 2301: Automatic Voter Registration Act

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H.R. 2301: Automatic Voter Registration Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-04-01 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-04-01 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Automatic Voter Registration Act

Plain summary

Automatic Voter Registration Act This bill provides for automatic voter registration of individuals through state motor vehicle authorities. Specifically, the bill requires each state motor vehicle authority, upon receiving specified identifying information regarding an individual who requests services from the authority, to transmit the identifying information to the appropriate state election official. The state election official must then notify the individual that the individual shall be automatically registered to vote in federal elections unless the individual declines to be registered to vote, does not meet voter registration eligibility requirements, or is already registered to vote. The bill provides an individual with a 21-calendar day period to opt out of automatic voter registration. A state may only use identifying information regarding an individual's citizenship status for determining whether the individual is eligible to vote in federal elections.

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Official text

Automatic Voter Registration Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] · 109 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Mark Takano (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Adam Smith (D-WA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Seth Moulton (D-MA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV) and 49 more.

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Appropriation
Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2301 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117