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General Assembly Proposed House Joint
Resolution No. 36
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2201
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. LUXENBERG, 12
th Dist.
RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE
CONSTITUTION TO AUTOMATICALLY ADMIT SEVENTEEN -YEAR-
OLD STATE RESIDENTS AS ELECTORS.
Resolved by this Assembly:
That the Constitution of the state be amended to (1) automatically 1
admit as an elector, without any requirement to apply for such 2
admission, any citizen of the United States who has attained the age of 3
seventeen years and who is a bona fide resident of any town in the 4
state, (2) require notification of such admission to each newly admitted 5
elector and to the registrars of voters of the town in which such newly 6
admitted elector resides, and (3) require necessary funding to the office 7
of the Secretary of the State for such admission and notification 8
purposes. 9
Statement of Purpose:
To automatically register seventeen-year-old state residents to vote
without requiring they apply for such registration, to provide
notification of registration to the newly registered electors and their Proposed House Joint Resolution No. 36
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local registrars of voters and to ensure funding necessary for the
Secretary of the State to administer these changes.