Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: establishing a plan to register qualified electors who are detained in jail and to allow the electors to vote while detained.
Elections — Ballots Elections — Campaign expense Elections — Registration House of correction Housing Jail Joint review committee on criminal penalties Municipality — Officers Sheriff Small claims court
- 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 that the sheriff of each county in this state establish a plan
to allow qualified voters who are detained in jail or a county house of correction to
register to vote and to vote at an election by absentee ballot. The bill requires the
sheriff to establish the plan with assistance from the municipal clerk of the
municipality where the jail or house of correction is located.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Baldeh (D) , Bare (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Myers (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Subeck (D)
Full history
- Oct 31, 2023 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Moore Omokunde, Bare, Goyke, Baldeh, Myers, Jacobson, Subeck, Considine, Conley, Ratcliff, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Ortiz-Velez, Joers, Palmeri, Madison and Clancy; cosponsored by Senators Taylor, Spreitzer, Larson, Hesselbein and Smith
- Oct 31, 2023 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections
- Mar 7, 2024 · Assembly
Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor
- Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1