Same Day Registration Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5906 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5906

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide 
                       for same day registration.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2025

     Ms. Brownley (for herself, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Bell, Mr. Carter of 
 Louisiana, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Goldman of New York, Ms. Norton, 
  Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Matsui, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. Mullin, Ms. 
 Tokuda, Mr. Tonko, and Mr. Whitesides) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide 
                       for same day registration.

    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 ``Same Day Registration Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. SAME DAY REGISTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 
U.S.C. 21081 et seq.), as amended by section 2(a) of the COCOA Act of 
2024, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating sections 305 and 306 as sections 306 
        and 307, respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after section 304 the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 305. SAME DAY REGISTRATION.

    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) Registration.--Notwithstanding section 8(a)(1)(D) of 
        the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 
        20507(a)(1)(D)), each State shall permit any eligible 
        individual on the day of a Federal election and on any day when 
        voting, including early voting, is permitted for a Federal 
        election--
                    ``(A) to register to vote in such election at the 
                polling place using a form that meets the requirements 
                under section 9(b) of the National Voter Registration 
                Act of 1993 (or, if the individual is already 
                registered to vote, to revise any of the individual's 
                voter registration information); and
                    ``(B) to cast a vote in such election.
            ``(2) Exception.--The requirements under paragraph (1) 
        shall not apply to a State in which, under a State law in 
        effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of 
        this section, there is no voter registration requirement for 
        individuals in the State with respect to elections for Federal 
        office.
    ``(b) Eligible Individual.--For purposes of this section, the term 
`eligible individual' means, with respect to any election for Federal 
office, an individual who is otherwise qualified to vote in that 
election.
    ``(c) Effective Date.--Each State shall be required to comply with 
the requirements of subsection (a) for the regularly scheduled general 
election for Federal office occurring in November 2026 and for any 
subsequent election for Federal office.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment Relating to Enforcement.--Section 401 of 
such Act (52 U.S.C. 21111), as amended by section 2(b) of the COCOA Act 
of 2024, is amended by striking ``and 304'' and inserting ``304, and 
305''.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of such Act, as 
amended by section 2(c) of the COCOA Act of 2024, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 305 and 
        306 as relating to sections 306 and 307, respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 304 the 
        following new item:

``Sec. 305. Same day registration.''.
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