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The bill improves access to voter-registration information for renters and housing consumers through timely, multilingual, centrally tested materials, at the cost of modest administrative, translation, and paperwork burdens for housing providers, agencies, and potentially tenants if no new funding is provided.
Renters, voucher recipients, and mortgage applicants will receive clear, timely, and multilingual voter-registration information during leases, voucher/benefit paperwork, and mortgage applications, reducing language barriers and expanding registration opportunities.
A central, Bureau-hosted program for translations and consumer testing will standardize and improve clarity and consistency of voter-education materials across federal housing and mortgage programs.
Owners, public housing agencies, creditors, and lenders will incur administrative and compliance costs to add, distribute, and track the required voter-information statements in leases, vouchers, income forms, and loan documents.
Mandating multilingual materials raises translation and dissemination costs that may be borne by program budgets or passed through to tenants, potentially reducing affordability or straining agency finances.
Recipients and applicants will face small additional paperwork and time burdens when signing leases, completing income verifications, or applying for loans.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the CFPB to publish a multilingual voter-registration/rights statement and requires certain federal housing and mortgage actors to provide it to tenants, voucher recipients, and mortgage applicants.
Introduced August 5, 2025 by Nikema Williams · Last progress August 5, 2025
Requires the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to create and publish a multilingual, uniform statement explaining how people can register to vote and their voting rights. Federal housing and mortgage-related entities must provide that statement to tenants, voucher recipients, and mortgage applicants at specified times; the measure also requires consumer testing, publication in English plus the 10 most common limited-English-proficiency languages, and allows agencies to issue implementing rules.