S.Amdt. 4978

SA 4978. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 33, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2027 through 2035; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PREVENTING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OR THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FROM SEIZING
STATE VOTER REGISTRATION LIST DATA.

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,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
protecting voter data and election infrastructure, which may
include by preventing the Department of Justice or the
Department of Homeland Security from seizing State voter
registration list data or breaking the chain of custody of
election ballots, voting equipment and software, and
associated data, by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal
years 2026 through 2035.
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