SJRES 186 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the fundamental right to vote.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 27, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S2055)

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 27, 2026
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment related to the fundamental right to vote.

Specifically, it grants every U.S. citizen of legal voting age the fundamental right to vote in any public election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides.

Next, it specifies that the fundamental right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, a state, or a political subdivision of a state, unless the denial or abridgment is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest by the least restrictive means.

Finally, it repeals a specific portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which allows for the denial of the right to vote based on crime. (Currently, some states disallow individuals from voting, either temporarily or indefinitely, after incarceration for a felony.)

Cosponsors 9

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 27, 2026.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAlex PadillaOriginalApr 27, 2026
I-VTBernard SandersOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-MDChris Van HollenOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-MAEdward J. MarkeyOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-MAElizabeth WarrenOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-ORJeff MerkleyOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-HIMazie K. HironoOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-VTPeter WelchOriginalApr 27, 2026
D-CTRichard BlumenthalOriginalApr 27, 2026

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 27, 2026Introduced in Senate
  2. Apr 27, 2026Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S2055)

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 27, 2026Introduced in Senate

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