To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing a funding stream for a voter reinfranchisement initiative.

SA 367. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING PROVIDING A
FUNDING STREAM FOR A VOTER REINFRANCHISEMENT
INITIATIVE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to providing a funding stream for a voter
reinfranchisement initiative, which may include Bureau of
Prisons notifications for released inmates of voting rights,
notifications by United States attorneys of voting rights
restrictions during plea agreements, and a Department of
Justice report on the disproportionate impact of criminal
disenfranchisement laws on minority populations, including
data on disfranchisement rates by race and ethnicity, by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.
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