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2024 SESSION
SB 196 Voter registration; list maintenance data standards, challenges to a voter's registration.
Introduced by: Schuyler T. VanValkenburg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Voter registration; list maintenance data standards; challenges to a voter's registration. Prohibits the use of voter data received from another state or jurisdiction or through a list comparison for list maintenance purposes when the data file does not include a unique identifier for each individual whose information is contained in the data file. The bill requires the Department of Elections to conduct an annual review of all sources of data utilized for list maintenance activities in the preceding 12-month period for the purpose of determining the validity, completeness, accuracy, and reliability of the data received from each source and to include the results of such review in its annual report to the House and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections regarding its list maintenance activities. Lastly, the bill removes provisions allowing general registrars to adjudicate challenges to a voter's registration, reserving such process to the courts. The bill includes technical amendments.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102905D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106247D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/26/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB196ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102905D
- 01/08/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/30/24 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 01/30/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106247D-S1
- 01/30/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/07/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/09/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/09/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106247D-S1
- 02/09/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB196S1
- 02/12/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 4-N)
- 02/12/24 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/24 Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/16/24 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 8-N)
- 02/20/24 House: Read second time
- 02/21/24 House: Read third time
- 02/21/24 House: Passed House (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/21/24 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/26/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB196ER)
- 02/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/28/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/01/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
- 03/01/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024
- 03/08/24 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 03/09/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 04/17/24 Senate: Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 21-N)
- 04/17/24 Senate: Communicated to Governor
- 04/17/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024