; and (B) for each subsequent fiscal year, the difference between $26,000,000 and the amount of unobligated funds in the Youth Engagement Fund as of the close of the preceding fiscal year. (3) Availability Funds appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in paragraph (2) shall remain available for a period of 10 years from the fiscal year in which appropriated. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of contents of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following: PART 7—Grants to encourage youth involvement in election activities Sec. 297. Grants to encourage youth involvement in election activities. . 11. Absentee voting (a) Enforcement of twenty-Sixth amendment Section 301(a)(1) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 52 U.S.C. 10701(a)(1) ) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: , including denials or abridgements of the rights of citizens of the United States to vote on account of age as a result of age-based restrictions for individuals of legal voting age to voting by mail . (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that age-based restrictions for individuals of legal voting age to vote by mail constitute a violation of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 12. Studies and data collection (a) GAO Study (1) In General Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on voter registration trends, absentee voting trends, and provisional voting trends, disaggregated by age and (where information on race is available) race in accordance with paragraph (2), including— (A) an examination of the reliance on absentee and provisional ballots by age; (B) an examination of the availability of polling places on the campuses of institutions of higher education as defined in section 7 of this Act, including consideration of the characteristics of those institutions and the populations they serve