Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: review and modification of voter registration lists.
Elections — Registration Elections commission Electric utility Municipality — Officers
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill eliminates the Elections Commission's responsibility to change the
registration status of electors who have not voted within the previous four years from
eligible to ineligible under certain circumstances. Under current law, the
commission must, after each general election, review the voter registration list
maintained by each municipality and mail a notice of suspension of registration and
application for continuation of registration to each elector who has not voted within
the previous four years. If the elector does not respond to the notice in a timely
manner, the commission must change the elector's registration status from eligible
to ineligible. This bill also eliminates the authority of the commission to delegate
these responsibilities to the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners of a
municipality.
Sponsors
Full history
- Jun 6, 2017 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives C. Taylor, Kessler, Zamarripa, Fields, Young, Hesselbein, Sinicki, Berceau, Sargent, Goyke, Spreitzer, Brostoff, Zepnick, Pope, Crowley, Ohnstad, Considine and Wachs; cosponsored by Senators Ringhand, Larson, Vinehout and L. Taylor
- Jun 6, 2017 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections
- Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1