Automatic voter registration and the integration of registration information with information maintained by the Department of Transportation and other state agencies and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires the Elections Commission to facilitate the registration of all eligible electors of this state and to maintain the registration of all eligible electors for so long as they remain eligible. The bill directs the commission and the Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement so that DOT may transfer information in DOT's records to the commission. The bill requires the commission to maintain the confidentiality of any information it obtains under the agreement and allows a driver's license or identification card applicant to “opt out" of DOT's transfer of this information to the commission. Once the commission obtains all the information required under current law to complete an elector's registration, the commission adds the elector's name to the statewide registration list.

The bill also directs the Elections Commission to report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature, no later than July 1, 2020, concerning its progress in implementing the registration system created by the bill. The report must contain an assessment of the feasibility of integrating registration information with information maintained by other agencies.

Who's behind it

11 senators are its authors⁠. All 11 are Democrats.

33 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DOT
• Fiscal Estimate From ELEC