Date: May 11, 1965
Subject: Poll Tax
Description: Kennedy (D-MA) amendment to prohibit the collection of a poll tax as a condition for registration or voting in state or local elections and to authorize enforcement machinery; the amendment stipulated that if the Congressional ban on poll taxes were upset in court, no person could be denied the right to vote during the period of a year after the entry of a final judgement in such an action because of his failure to pay a poll tax or to make timely payment if he had paid the tax due for one year, within a period of 45 days prior to an election. The amendment deleted Section 9 of the bill, which authorized the Attorney General to institute proceedings for relief against enforcement of state poll taxes as a condition of voting when such tax had the purpose or effect of denying a person the right to vote.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 45-49
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