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2022 SESSION
HB 46 Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required.
Introduced by: R. Lee Ware | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Elections; voter identification containing a photograph required; availability of absentee voting in person; processing returned absentee ballots; permanent absentee voter list repealed. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. A voter who does not show an accepted form of identification is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. The bill limits the period that absentee voting in person is available to the twenty-one days prior to an election and allows localities to offer extended hours for absentee voting in person. Additionally, the bill repeals the provision that allows an absentee ballot that is returned after the close of polls to be counted if it is postmarked by election day and arrives by the Friday after the election. The bill makes changes to the pre-processing of absentee ballots and repeals the permanent absentee voter list.
FULL TEXT
- 12/31/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102903D pdf | impact statement
- 02/11/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106214D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 12/31/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102903D
- 12/31/21 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/24/22 House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/25/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 4-N)
- 02/08/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 4-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106214D-H1
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106214D-H1
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB46H1
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 48-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/22/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)