Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 39

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: absentee ballot request and return confirmation. (FE)

Elections — Ballots Elections commission Privacy Telephone

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Senate, not reached
Passes Assembly, 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

Current law allows a voter to receive an absentee ballot by making a written

application by means of facsimile transmission or electronic mail. Under this bill,

if a voter makes a written application by electronic mail and submits his or her

mobile telephone number with the application, after the voter completes and submits

the application, the electronic application system maintained by the Elections

Commission must automatically notify the voter by text message that his or her

application has been received. In addition, under the bill, after the voter completes

and returns his or her ballot, the system must automatically notify the voter by text

message that his or her ballot has been received. Finally, the bill provides that all

mobile telephone numbers submitted for the purposes provided under the bill are

confidential.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From ELEC

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 4, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0