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[S. 188 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
S.188
One Hundred Tenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
the third day of January, two thousand and eight
An Act
To revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and
Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act
of 2006.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
Section 1 of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott
King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006
(Public Law 109-246) is amended by striking ``and Coretta Scott King''
and inserting ``Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan,
William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia''.
SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
Paragraphs (7) and (8) of section 4(a), and section 13(a)(1), of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973b(a), 1973k(a)(1)) are
each amended by striking ``and Coretta Scott King'' and inserting
``Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C.
Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia''.
SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION.
Title I of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq.)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 20. A reference in this title to the effective date of the
amendments made by, or the date of the enactment of, the Fannie Lou
Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C.
Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights
Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 shall be considered to
refer to, respectively, the effective date of the amendments made by,
or the date of the enactment of, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and
Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act
of 2006.''.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.