1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Help Students Vote Act . 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that political participation and civic engagement are fundamental to the health of American democracy, and that all citizens should be encouraged to vote, regardless of party affiliation. 3. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to the National Center for Education Statistics, undergraduate enrollment is projected to increase from 17,000,000 to 19,300,000 students between 2015 and 2026, and nearly 3,000,000 undergraduate and graduate students today enroll in exclusively online education. (2) According to the Pew Research Center, people between the ages of 18 and 35 comprise roughly 31 percent of the overall electorate. (3) In 2014, young adults (ages 18 to 29) made up about 21 percent of the voting eligible population but only 17 percent of this population cast a ballot in the 2014 election. (4) Just 42 percent of 18–24 year olds said they were registered to vote in 2014, which was the lowest rate in 40 years. (5) In 2008, 21 percent of young adults (ages 18 to 29) said they weren’t registered to vote because they missed the registration deadline. Six percent said they didn’t know where or how to register. 4. Distributing voter registration forms Section 487(a)(23) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1094(a)(23) ) is amended to read as follows: (23) (A) The institution will make a good faith effort to distribute voter registration forms to each student, and to make such forms widely available to students at the institution. In this paragraph, the term student means an individual who is enrolled at the institution as an undergraduate or graduate student on a full-time or part-time basis, including an individual who is solely enrolled in an online course. (B) The institution shall be considered in compliance with the good faith requirements of subparagraph (A)— (i) if, with respect to each student enrolled and physically in attendance at the institution, the institution—