Know Your Polling Place Act
Latest action · Mar 5, 2019 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
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.
- IntroducedMar 5, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Know Your Polling Place Act
This bill requires a state that changes an individual's polling place to notify the individual at least seven days before the election, or, if the change is made fewer than seven days before the election and the individual appears at the previously assigned polling place, to make every reasonable effort to enable the individual to vote.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 5, 2019 to Mar 14, 2019; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Anthony G. Brown | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-IL | Sean Casten | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Original | Mar 5, 2019 |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Mar 14, 2019 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Mar 5, 2019 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2019Introduced in House
- Mar 5, 2019Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 39, March 5, 2019, page H2368.
Related bills 5
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1 | For the People Act of 2019 | Related bill | Mar 14, 2019 |
| S 549 | Voter Empowerment Act of 2019 | Related bill | Feb 25, 2019 |
| S 949 | For the People Act of 2019 | Related bill | Mar 28, 2019 |
| HR 1275 | Voter Empowerment Act of 2019 | Related bill | Mar 22, 2019 |
| HR 1278 | Know Your Polling Place Act | Reintroduced Bill | Feb 24, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Know Your Polling Place Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
