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2022 SESSION
HB 175 Absentee voting; applications for ballots, annual absentee voter list.
Introduced by: Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list; absentee ballots; return of ballots. Removes the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ballot for any election in which he is eligible to vote in the ensuing calendar year. The application for the annual absentee voter list requires, at a minimum, the voter to provide his printed name, date of birth, and the last four digits of his social security number. The bill makes an absentee voter's failure to have a witness sign the absentee ballot envelope a material omission and renders his ballot void. Current law allows a late absentee ballot to be counted if it is received by the Friday after the election and postmarked on or before the day of the election; the bill modifies this provision, requiring a postmark on or before the Saturday immediately preceding the day of the election.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101651D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106029D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/10/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101651D
- 01/10/22 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/03/22 House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #3
- 02/04/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/04/22 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/04/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106029D-H1
- 02/08/22 House: Read first time
- 02/09/22 House: Read second time
- 02/09/22 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/10/22 House: Read second time
- 02/10/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106029D-H1
- 02/10/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB175H1
- 02/11/22 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/11/22 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 03/01/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)