Connecticut 2019 2019 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00024 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/14/2019

                     
 
LCO No. 329   	1 of 1 
  
General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 24  
January Session, 2019  
LCO No. 329 
 
 
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION 
AND ELECTIONS  
 
 
Introduced by:  
SEN. LESSER, 9th Dist.  
 
 
 
AN ACT CONCERNING AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION AT 
CERTAIN STATE AGENCIES. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
That title 9 of the general statutes be amended to (1) require that the 1 
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, the Commissioner of Social Services, 2 
the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the Board of Trustees 3 
for The University of Connecticut implement an electronic process for 4 
automatically admitting as electors certain individuals who engage in 5 
certain transactions with such agencies, provided any such individual 6 
may affirmatively decline to be so admitted, and (2) create a 7 
presumption that removal of any such individual from a party 8 
enrollment list during the course of such electronic automatic 9 
admission process was unintentional. 10 
Statement of Purpose:   
To establish automatic voter registration at certain state agencies and 
create a presumption that any removal from a party enrollment list 
through such automatic voter registration was unintentional.