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1997 SESSION
HB 2037 Interference with voter registration.
Introduced by: Samuel A. Nixon, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Interference with voter registration; destruction of, or failure to mail or deliver, application. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to agree to mail or deliver a registration application for another and to destroy, or fail to mail or deliver, the application with the intent to interfere with the applicant's effort to register to vote. The mailing or delivery of an application within 15 days of the date of the applicant's signature or in time for processing before an election, whichever happens first, will be deemed "timely" delivery. Government employees acting in an official capacity are exempt from the provisions of the bill.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 973166384 pdf
- 01/29/97 House: Printed as engrossed 973166384-E pdf
- 02/26/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2037ER) pdf
- 03/19/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/97 House: Presented & ordered printed 973166384
- 01/13/97 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/14/97 House: Assigned to P. & E. sub-committee: 2
- 01/27/97 House: Reported from P. & E. w/amendment (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/97 House: Read first time
- 01/29/97 House: Read second time
- 01/29/97 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/29/97 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/29/97 House: Printed as engrossed 973166384-E
- 01/30/97 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/97 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/97 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/31/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/02/97 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/11/97 Senate: Reported from P. & E. with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/97 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/97 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/14/97 Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/97 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/97 Senate: Committee amendment rejected
- 02/14/97 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/97 Senate: Amendment by Sen. Whipple agreed to
- 02/14/97 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/14/97 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/97 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/97 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/18/97 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/97 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/97 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2037ER)
- 03/04/97 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/97 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/97 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/13/97 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 337 (effective 7/1/97)
- 03/19/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0337)