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2019 SESSION
HB 2790 Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person, beginning on 2nd Sat. immediately preceding election.
Introduced by: Nick Rush | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person voting available beginning on second Saturday immediately preceding election. Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person beginning on the second Saturday immediately preceding any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for an absentee ballot. The bill makes absentee voting in person available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to the election and ending at 5:00 p.m. on the Saturday immediately preceding the election. The bill retains the current provisions for voting with an absentee ballot by mail or in person prior to the second Saturday immediately preceding the election, including the application requirement and the list of statutory reasons for absentee voting. The provisions of the bill do not become effective until the November 3, 2020, general election, and the State Board of Elections is required to submit a report on the procedures and instructions it promulgates for conducting absentee voting pursuant to the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to SB 1026.
FULL TEXT
- 01/18/19 House: Presented and ordered printed 19102828D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/19 House: Printed as engrossed 19102828D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2790ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
HISTORY
- 01/18/19 House: Presented and ordered printed 19102828D
- 01/18/19 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/21/19 House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/29/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/19 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (20-Y 2-N)
- 02/03/19 House: Read first time
- 02/04/19 House: Read second time
- 02/04/19 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/04/19 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2790E
- 02/04/19 House: Printed as engrossed 19102828D-E
- 02/05/19 House: Read third time and passed House (89-Y 10-N)
- 02/05/19 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (89-Y 10-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/12/19 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (12-Y 2-N)
- 02/12/19 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/18/19 Senate: Reported from Finance (12-Y 4-N)
- 02/19/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/19 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/19 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/19 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/21/19 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/21/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/21/19 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (34-Y 6-N)
- 02/21/19 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (90-Y 9-N)
- 02/21/19 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (90-Y 9-N)
- 02/23/19 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/19 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2790ER)
- 02/23/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/04/19 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- 03/04/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/21/19 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 668 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/21/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0668)