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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.
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Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24] · R–TX
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-05 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025 would amend federal law to expressly include providing immigration-status information about an individual on a list of potential voters when requested by a state's attorney general or secretary of state. The proposed language sets a deadline of 15 days after receiving the request.
This Act may be cited as the Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025.
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.
The bill would add this language to section 642(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, immediately after its reference to providing requested verification or status information. It does not reproduce the rest of that existing provision.
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:
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated May 22, 2026, records that the bill was introduced in the House and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary on February 5, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-05-22T08:07:53Z. 2025-02-05: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 2025-02-05: Introduced in House
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