Bill Details
HR.1037 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-05 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-05
Policy Area
Immigration
Committees
View committees (1)
Sponsors
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (16)
- Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-Texas-22]
- Rep. Self, Keith [R-Texas-3]
- Rep. Cline, Ben [R-Virginia-6]
- Rep. Scott, Austin [R-Georgia-8]
- Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-Wisconsin-3]
- Rep. Tiffany, Thomas P. [R-Wisconsin-7]
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-New York-24]
- Rep. Perry, Scott [R-Pennsylvania-10]
- Rep. Edwards, Chuck [R-North Carolina-11]
- Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-Arizona-5]
- Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-Florida-19]
- Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-Indiana-2]
- Rep. Rulli, Michael A. [R-Ohio-6]
- Rep. Shreve, Jefferson [R-Indiana-6]
- Rep. Schmidt, Derek [R-Kansas-2]
- Rep. Moore, Barry [R-Alabama-1]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to respond quickly when a state asks for information about whether a person is a U.S. citizen. The goal is to help states check voter eligibility by getting citizenship or immigration status information faster. Under the bill, DHS would have to provide the requested information within 15 days when a state attorney general or secretary of state asks for it, including when the request is about people on a list of possible voters.
- It changes an existing federal immigration law to make DHS share citizenship or immigration status information more quickly with states.
- States could ask for this information from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security when they are checking whether someone may be eligible to vote.
- The bill says DHS must answer these requests within 15 days after receiving them.
- The information can include immigration status for an individual who appears on a list of potential voters.
Official Summaries
Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to respond within 15 days of receiving a request from certain state officials for the immigration status of an individual on a list of potential voters.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1037 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1037
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to promptly comply with
State requests for information regarding the citizenship status of an
individual.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 5, 2025
Ms. Van Duyne (for herself, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Self, Mr. Cline, Mr. Austin
Scott of Georgia, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Tiffany, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Perry,
Mr. Edwards, and Mr. Biggs of Arizona) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to promptly comply with
State requests for information regarding the citizenship status of an
individual.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Voter Eligibility Verification Act
of 2025''.
SEC. 2. PROMPT RELEASE OF INFORMATION.
Section 642(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(c)) is amended by inserting
after ``by providing the requested verification or status information''
the following: ``, including by providing immigration status of an
individual on a list of potential voters, when requested to do so by
the Attorney General of a State or the Secretary of State of a State
within 15 days of receiving such a request''.
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