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HB 1428 Absentee voting; photo identification required with application.
Introduced by: Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Absentee voting; photo identification required with application. Requires any voter submitting an application for an absentee ballot by mail or by electronic or telephonic transmission to a facsimile device to submit with his application a copy of one of the forms of identification acceptable under current law. The bill exempts military and overseas voters and persons with a disability from this requirement. This bill is identical to SB 872.
FULL TEXT
- 11/09/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100844D pdf | impact statement
- 01/20/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104477D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1428ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 11/09/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100844D
- 11/09/16 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/10/17 House: Assigned P & E sub: Elections
- 01/17/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
- 01/17/17 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/20/17 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 7-N)
- 01/20/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104477D-H1
- 01/20/17 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/20/17 House: Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay
- 01/25/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- 01/30/17 House: Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
- 02/01/17 House: Read first time
- 02/02/17 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/17 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/17 House: Read second time
- 02/06/17 House: Committee substitute agreed to 17104477D-H1
- 02/06/17 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1428H1
- 02/07/17 House: Read third time and passed House (61-Y 35-N)
- 02/07/17 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (61-Y 35-N)
- 02/08/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/14/17 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/17 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/21/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/21/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1428ER)
- 02/21/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- 02/21/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/03/17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/05/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/05/17 House: House sustained Governor's veto