What were the Senate actions or votes on H.R.22 or companion SAVE Act measures after April 2025?
Executive summary
After the House sent H.R.22 (the SAVE Act) to the Senate on April 10, 2025, the Senate record shows only limited, largely procedural activity — the engrossed bill was received and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table on that date, and later a senator sought unanimous consent to pass H.R.22 on the floor but was opposed; there is no evidence in the provided reporting of any Senate roll‑call votes to pass or defeat the bill after April 2025 [1] [2] [3].
1. What the Senate formally recorded in April 2025: receipt and a procedural “motion to reconsider”
Congress’s official actions log records that H.R.22 was “received in the Senate” on April 10, 2025, and that on that same date a “motion to reconsider [was] laid on the table” and agreed to without objection — standard procedural steps that do not themselves advance debate or invoke a vote on passage in the Senate but do mark formal transmittal of the House‑passed bill [1] [2].
2. Floor maneuvering in May: a unanimous‑consent bid met with objection
On May 20, 2025, Senate floor transcripts show debate on voter‑registration matters in which Sen. Mike Lee explicitly asked that the Senate pass H.R.22 by unanimous consent, but the record indicates back‑and‑forth discussion and at least one objection to unanimous consent practice in related actions that day, signaling a lack of unanimous support and preventing expedited passage without debate or a roll call [3].
3. No Senate roll‑call votes reported after April 2025 in the supplied record
The assembled legislative trackers and congressional roll‑call sources in the reporting cover House roll calls on April 10 but do not show any subsequent Senate roll‑call votes to pass H.R.22; GovTrack, LegiScan and the House Clerk records confirm the House passage and Senate receipt but not any recorded Senate passage or recorded defeat after April 2025 in the available sources [4] [5] [6].
4. Companion Senate measure and committee handling: limited early referrals
A Senate companion, S.128, had been read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration earlier in the session, per bill tracking summaries, but the provided sources do not document committee votes, floor amendment actions, cloture motions, or any recorded committee report that would indicate movement toward a full Senate vote after April 2025 [5].
5. Political context and barriers to Senate passage cited by outside groups
Advocates and critics made clear the political hurdles: voting‑rights groups like the Brennan Center urged the Senate to reject H.R.22 as harmful to access, while civic groups noted that under current filibuster rules the Senate would need 60 votes to pass such significant election‑rule legislation — a practical barrier consistent with the absence of recorded Senate passage in the sources [7] [8]. The May floor attempt at unanimous consent by Sen. Lee, and the objections recorded that day, illustrate how procedural rules and partisan opposition constrained expedited Senate action [3].
6. Limits of the available reporting and what remains unanswered
The sources used here do not include any Senate roll‑call entries, committee reports, or cloture filings that would show a Senate vote on H.R.22 after April 2025; therefore it cannot be asserted from these materials that the Senate voted to pass, amend, or reject the bill after that date — only that it was received, subject to routine procedural housekeeping, and faced unsuccessful attempts to clear it by unanimous consent [1] [2] [3]. Additional follow‑up would require checking Senate roll‑call databases and committee dockets beyond the supplied record.