# S. 1383 (119th): A bill to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes.

A bill to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: citizenship_verification. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: disability_access. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: election_integrity. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: elections. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_affairs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: veterans_care. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: voter_id. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: voting_access. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 68: On Motion to Commit. Vote type: procedural.
Roll 69: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Roll 57: On the Motion to Proceed S. 1383. Vote type: cloture.
Roll 61: On the Cloture Motion S. 1383. Vote type: cloture.
Roll 67: On the Motion to Table S. 1383. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 68: On the Motion to Table S. 1383. Vote type: recommit.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure combines a legitimate civil interest in ensuring only citizens vote and in removing ineligible registrants with real concerns about access, such as documentary burdens, photo-ID requirements, and limits on mail or other non-in-person voting. It does not clearly restrain a named evil or directly advance a named moral harm. The dispute is prudential and falls within ordinary election policy, so a mixed classification is appropriate.
Theological note: This bill bears on the civil ordering of the franchise. Scripture gives civil authority a duty to administer justice honestly, and general equity calls for accurate rolls, public trust in elections, and no fraud against the citizenry. It also requires that lawful citizens not be unjustly excluded and that burdens on the vote be weighed carefully against the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and those without documents. Religious-objection accommodations and provisional-ballot cure rules are relevant to conscience and to due process. These are matters of prudential judgment within civil government, not a direct advancement or restraint of a named moral evil.

## Recorded votes

Roll 68: On Motion to Commit. Yea 214 · Nay 217 · Other 1.
Roll 69: On Passage. Yea 218 · Nay 213 · Other 1.
Roll 57: On the Motion to Proceed S. 1383. Yea 51 · Nay 48 · Other 1.
Roll 61: On the Cloture Motion S. 1383. Yea 41 · Nay 49 · Other 10.
Roll 67: On the Motion to Table S. 1383. Yea 53 · Nay 47 · Other 0.
Roll 68: On the Motion to Table S. 1383. Yea 53 · Nay 47 · Other 0.

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