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SB142
5FLNM6M-1
By Senator Kitchens
RFD: County and Municipal Government
First Read: 11-Feb-25
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5 5FLNM6M-1 12/17/2024 ANS (L)ma 2024-3241
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First Read: 11-Feb-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, beginning in February 2025,
the board of registrars or the Secretary of State must
use change-of-address information supplied by the
United States Postal Service through the National
Change of Address database and at least one other voter
registration database, such as the Electronic
Registration Information Center, to identify registered
voters whose addresses may have changed.
This bill would remove the Electronic
Registration Information Center as a voter registration
database that the board of registrars or the Secretary
of State may use to identify voters whose addresses may
have changed.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to voters and voting; to amend Section
17-4-30, Code of Alabama 1975, to remove the Electronic
Registration Information Center as a voter registration
database that the board of registrars or the Secretary of
State may use to identify voters whose addresses may have
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State may use to identify voters whose addresses may have
changed.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 17-4-30, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง17-4-30
(a) Beginning in February 2025, and in February of
every fourth year thereafter, the board of registrars, or the
Secretary of State , if acting as the board's agent pursuant to
subsection (h), shall use change-of-address information
supplied by the United States Postal Service through the
National Change of Address database and by at least one other
voter registration database, including, but not limited to,
the Electronic Registration Information Center or NVRA a
National Voter Registration Act designated agency, to identify
registered voters whose addresses may have changed.
(b)(1) If the board of registrars or Secretary of State
determines from the change-of-address information that a
registered voter has moved to a different residence address
that is under the jurisdiction of the same board of
registrars, the board of registrars shall change the
registration records of that voter to show the new address,
and the board of registrars or Secretary of State, within 90
days after identifying the potential change, shall send the
voter a notice of the change by forwardable mail along with a
postage prepaid, pre-addressed return card on which the
registered voter may correct his or her current address
information. The notice shall inform the voter that if the
voter did not change his or her residence, he or she is
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voter did not change his or her residence, he or she is
required to return the pre-addressed card no later than the
last day to register to vote before an election.
(2) If the board of registrars or Secretary of State
determines from the change-of-address information that a
registered voter has moved to a different residence address
that is under the jurisdiction of a different board of
registrars or to a residence address outside of the state, the
board of registrars or Secretary of State, within 90 days
after identifying the potential change, shall send the voter a
notice of the change by forwardable mail along with a postage
prepaid, pre-addressed return card on which the registered
voter may verify or correct his or her current address
information. The notice shall include both of the following:
a. A statement informing the voter that if the
pre-addressed card is not returned within the time specified
in the notice, the voter will be permitted to vote in that
same jurisdiction during the period from the date the notice
was mailed and ending on the day after the date of the second
general election for federal office, provided the voter
completes a voter registration update form. If the voter does
not update his or her voter registration record or vote during
the period ending on the day after the date of the second
general election for federal office, the voter's name shall be
removed from the list of eligible voters.
b. Information concerning how the voter may continue
his or her eligibility to vote in another jurisdiction if the
voter has changed his or her residence to an address outside
of the jurisdiction of the board of registrars under which he
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of the jurisdiction of the board of registrars under which he
or she is then registered.
(c) The board of registrars or Secretary of State shall
record and maintain in the statewide voter registration
database the dates on which the notice is mailed to a
registered voter and the card is subsequently returned to the
board by the registered voter.
(d) The board of registrars shall update the statewide
voter registration database using the information reported to
the board by the registered voters on the prepaid,
pre-addressed return cards provided for in this section.
(e) If the registered voter does not respond to the
notice provided in this section within 90 days of the date on
which the notice was mailed or if the notice is returned to
the board of registrars as undeliverable, the board of
registrars or its agent shall change the status of the voter
to inactive and indicate in the statewide voter registration
database the date the change is recorded and that the voter
did not respond to the mailing or that the mailing was
returned as undeliverable, in a manner provided by rule by the
Secretary of State.
(f) The names of persons to be removed from the list of
registered voters pursuant to this section shall be published
in accordance with Section 17-4-10.
(g) The Secretary of State may adopt rules as necessary
to implement this section.
(h) The Secretary of State may act as an agent for a
board of registrars, only upon receiving the written consent
of the county commission, in implementing this section."
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of the county commission, in implementing this section."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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