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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 5473 (Introduced in House) — To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United Sta... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Repeal of bilingual voting requirements

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Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 1973aa–1a ) is repealed. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 1973b ) is amended by striking subsection (f). The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq. ) is amended— in section 204, by striking or 203, ; and in the first sentence of section 205, by striking , 202, or 203 and inserting or 202 . The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq. ), as amended by 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— in sections 2(a), 3(a), 3(b), 3(c), 4(d), 5, 6, 8(a)(2)(A), and 13(a)(1), by striking , or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 4(f)(2) ; in paragraphs (1)(A) and
(3)of section 4(a), by striking or (in the case of a State or subdivision seeking a declaratory judgment under the second sentence of this subsection) in contravention of the guarantees of subsection (f)(2) ; and in paragraphs (1)(B) and
(5)of section 4(a), by striking or (in the case of a State or subdivision which sought a declaratory judgment under the second sentence of this subsection) that denials or abridgments of the right to vote in contravention of the guarantees of subsection (f)(2) have occurred anywhere in the territory of such State or subdivision .
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Repeal of bilingual voting requirements
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