Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session
Relating to: facilitating voter registration for applicants for a driver's license or state identification card and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Elections — Registration Elections commission Identification cards Motor vehicle — Drivers license Transportation department of — Vehicles
- 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 requires the Department of Transportation to do all of the following as
a part of the application process for a driver's license or state identification card:
1. Determine whether the applicant is registered to vote.
2. If the applicant is not registered to vote, provide a voter registration form and
information concerning eligibility to vote to the applicant, instructions for
completing the form, and, unless the applicant declines in writing, assistance in
completing the form.
3. Provide to the applicant a written explanation of how to register to vote in
person, by mail, and by electronic means.
The bill also requires that DOT and the Elections Commission jointly
promulgate rules providing, as a part of the application process, the opportunity for
applicants for a license or identification card to be automatically registered to vote.
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Haywood, Sinicki, Brostoff, Hebl, Ohnstad, Andraca, S. Rodriguez, Hesselbein, Drake, Subeck, Pope, Bowen, Stubbs and Shelton; cosponsored by Senators Johnson, Ringhand, Roys and Agard
- Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections
- Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1