Bill sets up new voting and voter list checking rules.
S. 1383 — Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 · Filed by Rick Scott (R-FL) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 9, 2025 · Passed both chambers
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What it does
This bill creates new rules for federal elections. People registering to vote must show papers proving they are U.S. citizens. People voting in person must show a photo ID. The government will check voter lists against immigration records. States must follow these rules within 30 days and send voter lists to the Department of Homeland Security.
Who it affects
The bill affects anyone who registers to vote or votes. It may make voting harder for people without documents. Elderly people and people with disabilities may also be affected.
One thing to notice
States must send their voter lists to a federal agency for checking. People who vote without an ID can use a signed statement but must show ID within three days.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- Apr 9, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 9, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- May 21, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held”
- Jul 30, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute…”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8894-8895; text: CR S8894-8895)”
- Feb 11, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 213 (Roll no. 69).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
20 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 23 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $3,270,683 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 16 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 97% of bills with any report.
Rick Scott, who sponsored the bill, received $69,750 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Education Association — $670,000 in 1 report
- American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees — $630,000 in 1 report
- American Federation of Teachers — $410,000 in 1 report
- League of Conservation Voters — $230,000 in 1 report
- United Automobile Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers — $230,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Department of Homeland Security — the federal agency that handles immigration and border security
- federal elections — elections where people vote for president, Congress, and other national offices
- immigration records — government files about people who came to live in the United States
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (28,066 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 24, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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