Expands use of the federal SAVE Program to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, with required participation, data-sharing, and procedures for cancellation based on immigration-status information from DHS.
The Department shall apply to participate in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program) operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the purposes of verifying that voters listed in the Virginia voter registration system are United States citizens. Upon approval of the application, the Department shall enter into any required memorandum of agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands immigration-enforcement cooperation by mandating participation in the federal SAVE Program, requiring MOUs with DHS, authorizing data-sharing with other states, and directing removal of noncitizens identified via SAVE (with added procedural safeguards like review, notice, and extended response time from 14 to 28 days). It also restricts such enforcement by adding a 90-day pre-election quiet period on systematic noncitizenship-based removals (with exceptions for individual recent triggers), changing the deletion timeline from 30 to 60 days, and deleting a prior prompt-notice-to
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HB28Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.↑Expands immigration enforcement Passed one chamber