HB193 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Feb 16, 2022

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2022

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Wes Allen Secretary
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Elections, absentee voting and absentee ballot collection, prohibiting any person from accepting or receiving payment for any process relating to absentee ballots
Description: Under existing law, it is unlawful for a person to pay, or for any elector to accept payment, either to vote or withhold his or her vote.
This bill would prohibit any person from paying or offering to pay an individual to obtain, deliver, or assist in completing another voter's absentee ballot.
This bill would also prohibit a person from accepting payment from another person for obtaining, delivering, or assisting in completing another voter's absentee ballot.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Elections