Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Formerly Incarcerated Voter Registration Act of 2015”.
Formerly Incarcerated Voter Registration Act of 2015
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to direct the Bureau of Prisons to provide certain voting information to Federal prisoners upon their release from prison.
Sec. 2 Provision of voting information to Federal prisoners
Section 4042(a)(E) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(viii) The laws and regulations governing the right of an individual convicted of a felony who has been released from prison to vote in each State, and, for the State in which the prisoner will reside upon release, any voter registration or application forms that the prisoner will need to complete in order to vote. For purposes of this clause, the term State includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.”