HR 1037119th CongressIn Committee

Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025

Introduced: Feb 5, 2025

Standard Summary

Comprehensive overview in 1-2 paragraphs

The Voter Eligibility Verification Act of 2025 would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to promptly provide a state government’s requested information about an individual’s citizenship/immigration status. Specifically, when a state Attorney General or a State Secretary of State asks DHS for verification “within 15 days of receiving such a request,” DHS must supply the information, including immigration status for individuals on a “list of potential voters.” The bill amends Section 642(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to add this requirement. In effect, the measure aims to speed up and broaden the sharing of citizenship/immigration information with states to help verify voter eligibility. The bill’s intent appears to be to improve the ability of states to identify ineligible voters (non-citizens) by obtaining rapid status information from the federal government for individuals on state lists related to voting. The exact mechanics—such as what constitutes a “list of potential voters” and how states compile such lists—are not detailed in the brief text, leaving several practical and legal questions open.

Key Points

1Amends 8 U.S.C. 1373(c) by adding a requirement that DHS promptly provide immigration status information “including by providing immigration status of an individual on a list of potential voters” when requested by a State’s Attorney General or Secretary of State, within 15 days of receipt.
2The request pathway is limited to state-level officials (Attorney General or Secretary of State) and does not specify other state agencies or local officials as eligible requesters.
3The information to be provided includes immigration status, and the amendment frames this in the context of a list of “potential voters,” i.e., individuals identified by the state as potentially eligible to vote.
4The 15-day deadline imposes a concrete, rapid-response requirement on DHS to share status information, potentially accelerating state-level voter eligibility verifications.
5The change expands the scope of information sharing for election integrity purposes and relies on existing federal-state information-sharing channels created by IIRIRA and 1373, but with a new emphasis on voter lists.

Impact Areas

Primary group/area affected:- Voter rolls and election administration at the state level, particularly per-eligibility verifications for potential voters. Non-citizens or ineligible individuals on state lists could be identified more quickly.Secondary group/area affected:- DHS and federal-state information-sharing workflows, including privacy and civil rights oversight, due-process considerations, and potential administrative costs for complying with rapid-status requests.Additional impacts:- Privacy and civil rights concerns related to sharing immigration status with state election officials, potential for mistaken classifications, and the risk of political or administrative misuse.- Potential legal and constitutional questions about federal-state information sharing and the scope of “lists of potential voters.”- Administrative burden on DHS to process and return status information within 15 days, and possible need for new procedures or safeguards to prevent errors or abuse.

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