File Code: Elections
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 329
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Kelley, Britt, Currie, Exum, Forehand, Gladden, Hughes,
Jones, Lawlah, and McFadden
- Entitled:
-
Election Law - Voter Registration - Felons
Altering the qualifications for voter registration to allow an
individual who has been convicted of a specified crime to qualify to
be a registered voter if the individual, in connection with a first or
subsequent conviction, has been released from the custody of a
specified facility; and repealing the provision requiring an
individual who has been convicted of a specified subsequent crime from
being qualified to be a registered voter until at least a specified
number of years have elapsed.
Senate Action
- 1/20
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 1/21
- Hearing 2/4 at 1:30 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Gwendolyn Britt, District 47
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Lisa A. Gladden, District 41
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Verna L. Jones, District 44
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- EX-OFFENDERS
- REGISTRATION -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
- VOTING -see also- BALLOTS; ELECTIONS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Election Law
- (
3-102
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
