Time Off to Vote Act
Official title: A bill to provide employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Time Off to Vote Act
This bill requires an employer, upon the request of an employee, to provide the employee with a minimum of two consecutive hours of paid leave while polls or sites that facilitate voting-related activity are open on the day of a federal election. This allotted time may be used to vote, return a mail-in ballot, or perform other voting-related activities.
The employer may determine the two-hour period, excluding any lunch break or other break.
Taking such leave shall not result in the employee losing accrued employment benefits.
The bill makes it unlawful for an employer to interfere with the right to take such leave or for an employer to discriminate against an employee for taking such leave. Further, the bill makes it unlawful for any employer to retaliate against an employee for (1) opposing any practice made unlawful by this bill; (2) filing a charge, or instituting or causing to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this bill; or (3) testifying or preparing to testify in an inquiry or proceeding relating to such leave.
The bill specifies penalties for employers who violate these provisions.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
- UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE & AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS
- NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- Energy, Dept of
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- SENATE
- Treasury, Dept of
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2549: Time Off to Vote Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2549/
"S. 2549: Time Off to Vote Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2549/.
S. 2549, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-2549/.
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