Sec. 5. Reimbursements to States
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Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21001 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Commission shall make payments to each State equal to the following costs incurred by the State (and local jurisdictions within the State): Costs of printing and mailing ballots and balloting material to absentee voters. Costs for providing return envelopes and the postage associated with such envelopes pursuant to section 304. Costs of purchasing high speed scanners and other equipment for processing absentee ballots.
Costs of purchasing and deploying absentee ballot drop boxes. Costs paid or incurred in complying with section 2 of the Resilient Elections During Quarantines and Natural Disasters Act of 2020 . Any costs not described in paragraph
(1)that are paid or incurred in complying with section 321. No funds may be provided to a State under this section for costs attributable to the electronic return of marked ballots by any voter. Subject to paragraph (2), if a State receives a payment under this section for costs that include costs incurred by a local jurisdiction within the State, the State shall pass through to such local jurisdiction a portion of such payment that is equal to the amount of the costs incurred by such local jurisdiction. If a State receives a payment for a period under this section that, as a result of the application of subsection (d), is less than the aggregate amount of costs described in subsection
(a)for such State for such period, than the portion of such payment that the State is required to pass through to a local jurisdiction under paragraph
(1)shall not exceed the amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount of costs incurred by such local jurisdiction for such period as— the amount of the payment received by the State under this section for the period; bears to the aggregate amount of costs described in subsection
(a)for such State for such period. If the amount appropriated under section 298 exceeds the aggregate costs incurred by all States for the amounts described in subsection
(a)for any period, the amount of payment made under such subsection to each State shall not exceed the amount which bears the same ratio to the aggregate amount of costs described in subsection
(a)for such State for such period as— the voting age population of the State (as reported in the most recent decennial census); bears to the total voting age population of all States (as reported in the most recent decennial census). For purposes of this section, the term State includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. There are authorized to be appropriated for payments under this part $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2020. Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization under this section shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until fiscal year 2030. . The table of contents of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 296 the following: Part 7—Ballot Tracking Reimbursements Sec. 297. Reimbursements. Sec. 298. Authorization of appropriations. .
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