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The two names the Act gives itself

Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, section 1, Sec. 1. Written by .

The two names the Act gives itself

The document says “may be cited asWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“This Act may be cited as the "Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act" or the "SAVE Act".”

Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, Sec. 1

The Act names itself twice. It does not call itself the SAVE America Act. That name belongs to a separate bill of the 119th Congress, H.R. 7296, which carries a photo identification requirement this Act does not contain.

What the document actually says

“This Act may be cited as the "Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act" or the "SAVE Act".”

Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, Sec. 1
That sentence, in plain words

This law has two names. The long name is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. Most people use the short one. It is the SAVE Act.

What this is about

A law usually gives itself a short name. This one gives itself two. Most people call it the SAVE Act. A different bill is called the SAVE America Act. They are not the same bill. The other one also asks for a photo ID. This one does not.

What is disputed
The document does not define this

The White House page at whitehouse.gov/saveamerica presents this bill, H.R. 22, under the name SAVE America Act, and lists a photo identification requirement and limits on mail-in ballots. Those appear in H.R. 7296, a different bill. They do not appear in the text of H.R. 22 indexed here.

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