---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21102"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21102"
heading: "Process for adoption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21102"
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"
---

# §21102. Process for adoption


The adoption of the voluntary guidance under this part shall be carried out by the Commission in a manner that provides for each of the following:

- (1) Publication of notice of the proposed recommendations in the Federal Register.
- (2) An opportunity for public comment on the proposed recommendations.
- (3) An opportunity for a public hearing on the record.
- (4) Publication of the final recommendations in the Federal Register.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title III, § 312, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1715.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15502 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.