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2008 SESSION

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HB 1262 Absentee ballot applications; address given shall be where person is located while confined.

Introduced by: Franklin P. Hall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Elections; absentee ballot applications.  Permits an absentee ballot to be sent to the address where the absentee voter is temporarily confined due to an illness or disability.  Current law allows the ballot to be sent to the absentee voter at any address where he will be located while absent from his county or city of residence but not to a temporary location, such as a rehabilitation center, within his county or city of residence.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Elections; absentee ballot applications.  Permits an absentee ballot to be sent to the address where the absentee voter is temporarily confined due to an illness or disability.  Current law allows the ballot to be sent to the absentee voter at any address where he will be located while absent from his county or city of residence but not to a temporary location, such as a rehabilitation center, within his county or city of residence.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Elections; absentee voting and absentee ballot applications.  Provides that any person who is otherwise qualified to vote, but is confined in a state facility or otherwise confined by the state because of a mental illness or disability, shall be allowed to vote absentee.