Stay in Line To Vote Act

Stay in Line To Vote Act

This bill prohibits states from restricting the provision of food or drink to individuals who are at a polling place to cast their ballots in a federal election.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2440 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2440

  To prohibit States from restricting a person from providing food or 
  drink to individuals at a polling place in an election for Federal 
                    office, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 8, 2021

    Ms. Wild (for herself, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Raskin, Ms. 
Barragan, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Takano, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Suozzi, 
   Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Jones, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. Demings, Mr. 
Cooper, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Speier, and Ms. DelBene) introduced 
   the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit States from restricting a person from providing food or 
  drink to individuals at a polling place in an election for Federal 
                    office, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Stay in Line To Vote Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING STATES FROM RESTRICTING THE PROVISION OF FOOD OR 
              DRINK TO INDIVIDUALS AT A POLLING PLACE.

    (a) Requirement.--Subtitle A of title III of the Help America Vote 
Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating sections 304 and 305 as sections 305 
        and 306, respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after section 303 the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 304. PROHIBITING STATES FROM RESTRICTING THE PROVISION OF FOOD 
              OR DRINK TO INDIVIDUALS AT A POLLING PLACE.

    ``A State may not prohibit a person from providing food or drink to 
individuals at a polling place in the State in an election for Federal 
office, including at a polling place at which individuals may cast 
ballots prior to the date of the election.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment Relating to Enforcement.--Section 401 of 
the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21111) is amended by 
striking ``and 303'' and inserting ``303, and 304''.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of such Act is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 304 and 
        305 as relating to sections 305 and 306, respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 303 the 
        following new item:

``Sec. 304. Prohibiting States from restricting the provision of food 
                            or drink to individuals at a polling 
                            place.''.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section and the amendments made by this 
section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
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