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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5103 Elections, Department of; appropriations to provide prepaid postage for return of absentee ballots.
Introduced by: Mark D. Sickles | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Appropriation; Department of Elections. Appropriates $2,000,000 to the Department of Elections to be used to provide prepaid postage for the return of absentee ballots for the November 3, 2020, election. The bill requires that such prepaid postage be provided by localities, which will be reimbursed by the Department out of the appropriation. The bill also makes other procedural changes for absentee voting for the November 3, 2020, election, including directing the State Board of Elections to promulgate guidelines for the establishment and operation of drop-off locations for completed ballots.
FULL TEXT
- 08/20/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200854D pdf
- 08/24/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20200940D-H1 pdf
- 08/27/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201013D-H2 (Sickles) pdf
- 08/27/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20201013D-EH2 pdf
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed bill reprinted 20201013D-EH2 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments not adopted
HISTORY
- 08/20/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200854D
- 08/20/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 08/24/20 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
- 08/24/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20200940D-H1
- 08/26/20 House: Read first time
- 08/27/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201013D-H2 (Sickles)
- 08/27/20 House: Read second time
- 08/27/20 House: Committee substitute rejected 20200940D-H1
- 08/27/20 House: Substitute by Delegate Sickles agreed to 20201013D-H2
- 08/27/20 House: Amendments by Delegate Cole passed by (55-Y 44-N)
- 08/27/20 House: VOTE: Pass by (55-Y 44-N)
- 08/27/20 House: Amendment by Delegate Sickles agreed to
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute with amendment HB5103EH2
- 08/27/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20201013D-EH2
- 08/27/20 House: Engrossed bill reprinted 20201013D-EH2
- 08/28/20 House: Read third time and passed House (54-Y 42-N)
- 08/28/20 House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 42-N)
- 09/02/20 Senate: Read first time
- 09/02/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
- 09/02/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N)
- 09/03/20 Senate: Read second time
- 09/04/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 09/09/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 09/10/20 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
- 09/10/20 Senate: Recommitted to Finance and Appropriations
- 11/10/20 Senate: Left in Finance and Appropriations