HB 16
Bill Summary
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.
Bill Text
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 |
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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
Bill Documents
Document Type | Document Location |
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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 |