HLS 12RS-664 ORIGINAL
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 147
BY REPRESENTATIVE FANNIN
VOTING/REGISTRATION: Deletes requirements relative to publishing the list of inactive
voters prior to federal elections
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 18:193(F), relative to elections; to provide relative to challenge2
and cancellation of voter registration; to provide relative to publication of the3
inactive list of voters; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 18:193(F) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง193. Challenge and cancellation of registration; notice; procedures7
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F. A list of names and addresses to whom address confirmation notices are9
sent and whether or not each person responded to the confirmation notice shall be10
maintained for a period of two years and shall be open to inspection and copying as11
provided in R.S. 18:154. Ninety days prior to a regularly scheduled federal primary12
election, the names and addresses of those persons on the inactive list shall be13
published for one day in the official journal of the parish governing authority or in14
a newspaper calculated to provide maximum notice in the parish.15
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HB NO. 147
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Fannin HB No. 147
Abstract: Provides for eliminating the requirement to publish the list of inactive voters 90
days before a regularly scheduled federal primary election.
Present law provides for procedures pertaining to the registration of voters. Provides for
changes to and challenge and cancellation of voter registration. Provides procedures for
confirming the address of a registrant when the registrar has reason to believe that the
registrant no longer is qualified to be registered or that the registrant has changed his
residence. Provides for sending an address confirmation card and placing the registrant on
the inactive list of voters. Provides that the registrant remains on the list until he responds
to the address confirmation card; until he votes or signs a petition in accordance with present
law; or until two regularly scheduled federal elections are conducted, at which time his
registration is cancelled. Proposed law retains present law.
Present law provides that the list of inactive voters shall be published 90 days prior to each
regularly scheduled federal primary election in the official journal of the parish governing
authority or in a newspaper calculated to provide maximum notice in the parish. Proposed
law repeals present law.
(Amends R.S. 18:193(F))