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  6. HB 16

HB 16

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  • 1 Bill Summary
  • 2 Bill Text
  • 3 Bill Actions
  • 4 Bill Votes
  • 5 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Jim Hill
Session
Regular Session 2019
Title
Municial elections, require voters to regisgter in same time frame as registering for county or state election, Sec. 11-46-38 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, a board of registrars is prohibited from registering an individual as a qualified elector within 10 days of a municipal election

This bill would provide that an individual must register to vote for a municipal election within the same time frame as provided for county and state elections

Relating to municipal elections; to amend Section 11-46-38, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide that an individual must register to vote for a municipal election within the same time frame as provided for county and state elections.

Subjects
Elections

Bill Text

Note: Bills that change current law do not show the amended text correctly below. Please view Original PDF to see amended sections: HB 16 - Enrolled - PDF

Under existing law, a board of registrars is prohibited from registering an individual as a qualified elector within 10 days of a municipal election

This bill would provide that an individual must register to vote for a municipal election within the same time frame as provided for county and state elections

Relating to municipal elections; to amend Section 11-46-38, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide that an individual must register to vote for a municipal election within the same time frame as provided for county and state elections.

Section 1

Section 11-46-38, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:

§11-46-38.

(a) At all municipal elections, the a qualified elector must may vote only in the ward or precinct of his or her residence where he or she is registered to vote and at the box or voting machine to which he or she has been assigned.

(b) No person An individual may not vote at any municipal election unless he or she is a registered and qualified elector of the State of Alabama, who has resided in the county 30 days and in the ward 30 days prior to the election, and who has registered not less than 10 days prior to the date of the election at which he or she offers to vote to vote in conformance with the time frame set forth in Section 17-3-50; provided, however, that any elector who, within 30 days next preceding the date of the election at which he or she offers to vote, has removed if a qualified elector relocates his or her residence from one ward to another ward in the same city or town within the 30-day period prior to the election, the elector shall have the right to vote in the ward from which he or she has removed, where the elector had previously resided if he or she would have been entitled to vote in the that ward but for such removal relocating to the new ward. If any elector attempts to vote in any ward other than that of his or her residence, except as hereinabove authorized, his or her vote must be rejected.

Section 2

All laws or parts of laws which conflict with this act are repealed.

Section 3

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
May 29, 2019 H Delivered to Governor at 1:33 p.m. on May 29, 2019.
May 29, 2019 H Assigned Act No. 2019-358.
May 29, 2019 H Clerk of the House Certification
May 29, 2019 S Signature Requested
May 28, 2019 H Enrolled
May 28, 2019 H Passed Second House
May 28, 2019 S Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1206
May 28, 2019 S Third Reading Passed
May 14, 2019 S Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
April 4, 2019 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
April 3, 2019 H Grimsley intended to vote Nay
April 3, 2019 H Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 90
April 3, 2019 H Third Reading Passed
April 2, 2019 H Hill motion to Carry Over Temporarily adopted Voice Vote
April 2, 2019 H Third Reading Carried Over
March 20, 2019 H Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
March 5, 2019 H Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections

Bill Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass
2019-05-28
Chamber: Senate
Result: Passed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass
2019-04-03
Chamber: House
Result: Passed

Bill Documents

Document Type Document Location
Bill Text http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019RS/PrintFiles/HB16-enr.pdf
Bill Text http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019RS/PrintFiles/HB16-int.pdf

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