HB239 would bar candidates and poll watchers from assisting a voter and align municipal voting-assistance rules with nonmunicipal rules.
It prohibits a candidate or poll watcher from assisting a voter with voting. It makes municipal election laws about voting assistance consistent with nonmunicipal laws, limiting who may provide help and requiring the assistant to sign the poll list; it also includes non-substantive technical updates to update code language. The act becomes effective immediately after the Governor signs it.
Pending third reading on day 29 Favorable from Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 661
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 660
Faulkner 2nd Amendment Offered
Faulkner motion to withdraw adopted Voice Vote
Faulkner 1st Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Source: Alabama Legislature