S. 1383 · 119th Congress · Government operations and politics
SAVE Act via Senate Substitute
Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: this vote covered more than one measure.
House · Feb 11, 2026
Roll call ↗218
213
Passed the House.
A member could not vote for this bill without voting for the SAVE America Act, because the Senate veterans-committee text was deleted in full and this was inserted in its place. The title on the vehicle names a Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access. The operative text establishes no such committee. It is voter registration and voter identification law from the first section to the last. The bill also couples two separate mandates that a member must accept together: documentary proof of citizenship to register, and photo identification to cast a ballot.
Passed the House on February 11, 2026.
Latest action: Considered by Senate (Message from the House considered). (consideration: CR S1647)
- IntroducedApr 9, 2025
- CommitteeDec 2, 2025
- Passed SenateDec 18, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 11, 2026
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- all Republicans
- Committees
- House Committee on House AdministrationSenate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Lobbying
- At least 17
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The House took a Senate bill titled to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, struck every word after the enacting clause, and replaced it with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, February 11, 2026
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The House took a Senate bill titled to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, struck every word after the enacting clause, and replaced it with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. What passed has nothing to do with veterans. It rewrites federal voter registration law. The bill bars a state from accepting a voter registration application for a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of United States citizenship. Documentary proof means a REAL ID that indicates citizenship, a United States passport, a military identification card paired with a service record showing a United States birthplace, a government photo ID showing a United States birthplace, or another government photo ID presented together with a supporting document such as a certified birth certificate, a naturalization or citizenship certificate, or a consular report of birth abroad. Applicants who register by mail must present that proof in person to an election official by the state's registration deadline. States must also set up a process letting an applicant who cannot produce documentary proof sign an attestation under penalty of perjury and submit other evidence of citizenship for an official to weigh. States must run their voter lists against the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE system to find and remove noncitizens, after notice and a chance to provide proof. The Secretary of Homeland Security must investigate whether to begin removal proceedings against any noncitizen found unlawfully registered. Absent uniformed services voters are exempt. The bill adds two new federal election crimes to the National Voter Registration Act. One reaches an election official who registers an applicant without documentary proof of citizenship. The other reaches an executive branch officer or employee who gives material assistance to a noncitizen attempting to register or vote. It also opens officials to private lawsuits for registering an applicant who did not present proof. A second half requires photo identification to cast a ballot. In-person voters must present a valid physical photo ID or cast a provisional ballot that counts only if they produce the ID within three days, or sign an affidavit of a religious objection to being photographed. Voters casting a ballot other than in person must include a copy of a photo ID, or the last four digits of their Social Security number with an affidavit that they could not obtain one. Valid IDs are a state driver's license, a state identification card, a United States passport, a military ID, or a tribal identification card.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 17 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 51 quarterly reports filed by 3 lobbying firms and by 17 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: Paralyzed Veterans of America; Wounded Warrior Project; Blinded Veterans Association; Military Officers Association of America; American Postal Workers Union AFL-CIO. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 12 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.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.