---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21101"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21101"
heading: "Adoption of voluntary guidance by Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21101"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter III — Uniform and Nondiscriminatory Election Technology and Administration Requirements"
  - "Part B — Voluntary Guidance"
---

# §21101. Adoption of voluntary guidance by Commission

- (a) **In general—** To assist [States](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) in meeting the requirements of part A of this subchapter, the Commission shall adopt voluntary guidance consistent with such requirements in accordance with the procedures described in [section 21102 of this title](/usc/52/21102.md).
- (b) **Deadlines—** The Commission shall adopt the recommendations under this section not later than—
  - (1) in the case of the recommendations with respect to [section 21081 of this title](/usc/52/21081.md), January 1, 2004;
  - (2) in the case of the recommendations with respect to [section 21082 of this title](/usc/52/21082.md), October 1, 2003; and
  - (3) in the case of the recommendations with respect to [section 21083 of this title](/usc/52/21083.md), October 1, 2003.
- (c) **Quadrennial update—** The Commission shall review and update recommendations adopted with respect to [section 21081 of this title](/usc/52/21081.md) no less frequently than once every 4 years.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title III, § 311, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1715.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15501 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.