An Act to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend certain provisions for an additional seven years, to make permanent the ban against certain prerequisites to voting, and for other purposes.

Summary

Title I: - Revises the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by increasing to twenty years the time period during which a declaratory judgment that no voting test or device has been used to abridge the right to vote on account of race or color may not issue in a case brought by a State or local political subdivision. Title II: - Prohibits the denial of the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of failure to comply with any test or device unless the United States District Court for the District of Columbia determines that no such test or device has been used during the ten years preceding the filing of the action. Declares the finding of Congress to be that voting discrimination against citizens of language minorities is pervasive and national in scope. Prohibits any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting from being imposed by any State or political subdivision to deny the right of any citizen to vote because he is a member of a language minority group. Title III: - Provides, under the Voting Rights Act, that no State or political subdivision shall provide voting materials only in English if the Director of the census determines that more than five percent of the citizens of voting age are members of a language minority, or that the illiteracy rate of such persons is higher than the national illiteracy rate. Title IV: - Requires the Director of the Census to conduct a survey of voting statistics: (1) in every State subject to the prohibitions of the Voting Rights Act,; and (2) in every State designated by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 6 August 1975

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 24 July 1975

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 22 April 1975

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