SAVE Act

Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 so that a state may not accept and process a federal voter registration application unless the applicant presents documentary proof of United States citizenship. The bill defines the accepted documents: a REAL ID-compliant identification indicating citizenship, a valid United States passport, a military ID paired with a service record showing a United States birthplace, or a federal, state, or Tribal photo ID showing a United States birthplace, and it lets other government photo IDs count only when combined with a certified birth certificate, hospital birth record, adoption decree, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, naturalization certificate, or similar proof. It extends the requirement to motor-vehicle and mail registration, directs states to verify citizenship at driver's-license registration, and requires states to establish a fallback process for applicants who cannot produce documents, allowing other evidence plus an attestation signed under penalty of perjury and an official's affidavit. States must take ongoing steps to keep noncitizens off the rolls and must remove a registrant upon documentation or verified information that the person is not a citizen. Federal agencies must respond to state verification requests within 24 hours and may not charge a fee, and the Secretary of Homeland Security must investigate whether to begin removal proceedings against a noncitizen found unlawfully registered. The bill adds criminal penalties, a private right of action, and a duty for Homeland Security to notify state officials when a person naturalizes.

At least 48 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 204 quarterly reports filed by 11 lobbying firms and by 41 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Public Citizen; Federation for American Immigration Reform; Common Cause; Southern Policy Law Center, Inc.; Defend the Vote Action Fund. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 43 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.