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2023 SESSION
HB 1910 Absentee voting; unsolicited absentee ballot applications, required information, penalty.
Introduced by: Amanda E. Batten | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Absentee voting; unsolicited absentee ballot applications; required information; penalty. Requires any organization sending an application for an absentee ballot to a registered voter that was not solicited or requested by the registered voter to include with the application instructions on completing the application and submitting it to the appropriate general registrar. The bill requires a statement that the application is not being sent by any state or local government official or agency to be printed on the envelope containing the application or on the first page of any enclosed materials. The bill specifies that organizations are required to use the information provided in the list of registered voters acquired by such organization from the Department of Elections pursuant to relevant law and that a violation of this requirement is a Class 4 misdemeanor. The bill also requires the Department of Elections to ensure, when providing such list to such organization for purposes of sending unsolicited applications, that no voter is included on such list if such voter has applied for an absentee ballot on or before the date such list is requested. Finally, the bill provides that no application for an absentee ballot sent to a registered voter that was not solicited or requested by the registered voter may be pre-populated with information that the applicant is required to provide.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101739D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23101739D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101739D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/20/23 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/24/23 House: Read first time
- 01/25/23 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/26/23 House: Engrossment reconsidered by House
- 01/26/23 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/27/23 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/30/23 House: Read second time
- 01/30/23 House: Amendments by Delegate Batten agreed to
- 01/30/23 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1910E
- 01/30/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23101739D-E
- 01/31/23 House: Read third time and passed House (88-Y 11-N)
- 01/31/23 House: VOTE: Passage (88-Y 11-N)
- 02/01/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/01/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/14/23 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N)