There is no explicit prohibition on prefilling any field on a voter registration application or absentee ballot application.
This bill would prohibit any individual or entity, other than certain public officials, from prefilling any field on a voter registration application or absentee ballot application without the voter's consent.
This bill would make a violation a Class C felony.
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 of 1901, 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 one of 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.
Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development first Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 29 Favorable from Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
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 657
Ledbetter motion to Previous Question adopted Roll Call 656
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 655
Gray 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