Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access Program Inclusion Act or the PAVA Inclusion Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to distribute Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA) program grants to the protection and advocacy systems of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the American Indian consortium.
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly authorize 
distribution of grant funds to the voting accessibility protection and 
advocacy system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and 
   the system serving the American Indian consortium, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protection and Advocacy for Voting 
Access Program Inclusion Act'' or the ``PAVA Inclusion Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZING PAYMENTS TO VOTING ACCESSIBILITY PROTECTION AND 
              ADVOCACY SYSTEMS SERVING THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN 
              MARIANA ISLANDS AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN CONSORTIUM.

    (a) Recipients Defined.--Section 291 of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21061) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c) Eligible Grant Recipients.--
            ``(1) Definition of state.--For the purposes of this 
        section, the term `State' shall have the meaning given such 
        term in section 102 of the Developmental Disabilities 
        Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 15002).
            ``(2) American indian consortium eligible.--A system 
        serving the American Indian consortium for which funds have 
        been reserved under section 509(c)(1)(B) of the Rehabilitation 
        Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794e(c)(1)(B)) shall be eligible for 
        payments under subsection (a) in the same manner as a 
        protection and advocacy system of a State.''.
    (b) Grant Minimums for American Indian Consortium.--Section 291(b) 
of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21061(b)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(c)(1)(B),'' after ``as set forth in 
        subsections''; and
            (2) by striking ``subsections (c)(3)(B) and (c)(4)(B) of 
        that section shall be not less than $70,000 and $35,000, 
        respectively.'' and inserting the following: ``subsection 
        (c)(3)(B) shall not be less than $70,000, and the amount of the 
        grants to systems referred to in subsections (c)(1)(B) and 
        (c)(4) shall not be less than $35,000.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect at the start of 
the first fiscal year starting after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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PAVA Inclusion Act
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly authorize distribution of grant funds to the voting accessibility protection and advocacy system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the system serving the American Indian consortium, and for other purposes.
PAVA Inclusion Act
Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access Program Inclusion Act
Rep. Gallego, Ruben