General Assembly Raised Bill No. 213
February Session, 2012 LCO No. 1254
*01254_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 213
February Session, 2012
LCO No. 1254
*01254_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING INTERNET ACCESS FOR REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 9-5a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):
(a) Each town shall (1) provide the registrars of voters with office space, supplies and equipment, including facilities for the safe storage of the official records of such registrars of voters, and (2) ensure that each registrar of voters may access the Internet and correspond with the Secretary of the State using electronic mail.
[Such records] (b) The official records of the registrars of voters of a town shall be accessible to all registrars of voters in such town and [they] all of the registrars of voters shall be [jointly] responsible for [their] the safekeeping of such records.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2012 9-5a
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2012
9-5a
Statement of Purpose:
To ensure that registrars of voters may correspond with the Secretary of the State using electronic mail and to make technical changes.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]