American Voting Standards and Technology Act
Latest action · Mar 5, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 27, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the State agency responsible for administering elections in a State for the purpose of: (1) purchasing new or rehabilitated voting equipment that improves the ability of the public to cast a timely and accurate vote; and (2) implementing voter education campaigns.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 1, 2001 to Jul 17, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Mar 1, 2001 | |
| R-NY | Amo Houghton | Mar 19, 2001 | |
| D-TX | Ciro D. Rodriguez | Mar 19, 2001 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Mar 21, 2001 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Mar 22, 2001 | |
| R-NY | Benjamin A. Gilman | Mar 27, 2001 | |
| R-NY | Felix J. Grucci Jr. | Mar 27, 2001 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Apr 4, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Apr 24, 2001 | |
| R-CA | Darrell Issa | Apr 26, 2001 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Jul 17, 2001 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Feb 27, 2001 |
| Technology Subcommittee | Referred Mar 5, 2001 | |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Feb 27, 2001 |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 27, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
- Feb 27, 2001Introduced in House
- Feb 27, 2001Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To develop voluntary consensus standards to ensure the accuracy and validation of the voting process, to direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study voter participation and emerging voting technology, to provide grants to States to improve voting methods, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- American Voting Standards and Technology Act
- Popular Titles
- Improve Voting Process bill
- Voting Process Standards and Technology Improvement bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Ballots
- Block grants
- Commerce
- Computers and government
- Computers in politics
- Congress
- Congressional elections
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Depressed areas
- Economics and Public Finance
- Election administration
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Income
- Industrial standards
- Internet
- Laboratories
- Law
- Licenses
- Minorities
- Minority voting
- Poor
- Presidential elections
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Technological innovations
- Voter registration
- Voter turnout
- Voting
- Voting machines
- Women
- Women's voting
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 27, 2001Introduced in House
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