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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6671
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5744
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING RE MOVAL FROM VOTER REGISTRY LISTS
AND THE DEPARTMENT O F MOTOR VEHICLES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 9-19i of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
Any change of address form submitted by a person in accordance 3
with law for purposes of a motor vehicle operator's license shall not 4
serve as notification of change of address for voter registration for the 5
person unless the person states on the form that the change of address 6
is [not] for voter registration purposes. [The] Whenever any person 7
does state on such form that such change of address is for voter 8
registration purposes, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall 9
forthwith transmit such change of address information to the registrars 10
of voters of the town of the former address of the person. If, upon 11
receipt of such information, the name of the person appears on the 12
registry list of the town, and if the new address is also within such 13
town, the registrars shall enter the name of such elector on the registry 14
list at the place where he then resides. If, upon receipt of such 15
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information, the name of the person appears on the registry list of the 16
town and if the new address is outside such town, the registrars shall 17
remove the name of such elector from the registry list and send the 18
elector the notice, information and application required by section 9-19
35. 20
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 9-19i
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit changes in address processed at the Department of Motor
Vehicles from being transmitted to registrars of voters for the purpose
of removing electors from town registry lists.
[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.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. FRANCE, 42nd Dist.
H.B. 6671