§20903 — Title 52 Voting and Elections | U.S. Code

§20903 Guaranteed Minimum Payment Amount

Title 52 › Subtitle Subtitle II— Voting Assistance and Election Administration › Chapter 209— ELECTION ADMINISTRATION IMPROVEMENT › Subchapter I— PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR ELECTION ADMINISTRATION IMPROVEMENTS AND REPLACEMENT OF PUNCH CARD AND LEVER VOTING MACHINES › § 20903

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must give extra money to any State that received less than $5,000,000 under sections 20901 or 20902. The extra payment equals the difference between what the State already got and $5,000,000. For Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the cutoff is $1,000,000 instead. To make those extra payments possible, the Administrator must cut the amounts paid under sections 20901(d) and 20902(c) proportionally as needed.

Title 52, §20903

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(a)In addition to any other payments made under this subchapter, the Administrator shall make a payment to each State to which a payment is made under either section 20901 or 20902 of this title and with respect to which the aggregate amount paid under such sections is less than $5,000,000 in an amount equal to the difference between the aggregate amount paid to the State under section 20901 and 20902 of this title and $5,000,000. In the case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands, the previous sentence shall be applied as if each reference to “$5,000,000” were a reference to “$1,000,000”.

(b)The Administrator shall make such pro rata reductions to the amounts described in section 20901(d) and 20902(c) of this title as are necessary to comply with the requirements of subsection (a).

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 15303 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§20903 Guaranteed Minimum Payment Amount

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Title 52, §20903

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