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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 597

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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

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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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)

6 cosponsors

Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Neubauer (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D)

Full history

  1. 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

  2. Oct 31, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections

  3. Mar 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Neubauer added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1