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1999 SESSION
HB 1503 Voting precincts; size requirements.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Voting precincts; size requirements. Modifies the present law’s requirement that counties and cities revise voting precinct boundaries whenever the number of registered voters in a precinct exceeds 5,000. The bill continues the present law’s requirement that no precinct should be established that contains more than 5,000 registered voters. However, the requirement to revise precincts will not be triggered unless the number of voters who voted in a precinct in a presidential election exceeds 4,000. Recent increases in the number of registered voters have coincided with declines in voter turnout and triggered precinct adjustments when actual voter turnout has not necessitated the precinct changes. The bill does not change the locality’s authority to redraw precincts at the locality’s option to handle large or growing precincts.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/99 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/21/98 997069264 pdf
- 02/27/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1503ER) pdf
- 04/02/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/13/99 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 12/21/98 997069264
- 01/13/99 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/20/99 House: Assigned to P. & E. sub-committee: 2
- 01/27/99 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (24-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/99 House: Read first time
- 01/29/99 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/01/99 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/03/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/16/99 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/99 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/99 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1503ER)
- 03/01/99 House: Enrolled
- 03/01/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 515 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/02/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515)