HLS 12RS-147 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 709
BY REPRESENTATIVE BADON
ELECTION CODE: Provides relative to registration and voting by certain displaced
registrants
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 18:101(F), relative to voter registration and voting; to provide2
relative to qualifications for registration and voting; to provide relative to the3
residence of persons involuntarily displaced by the effects of certain states of4
emergency for such purposes; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 18:101(F) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:7
ยง101. Registration to vote; qualifications; more than one residence; presidential8
elections9
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F. A person who has been involuntarily displaced from his place of residence11
by the effects of a gubernatorially declared state of emergency shall not be12
considered to have vacated his residence and shall be considered to be an actual bona13
fide resident of the state and parish in which he is registered to vote unless any of the14
following occurs:15
(1) he has either established He establishes a new domicile.16
(2) or has changed He changes his registration to an address outside the17
voting district.18
(3) Two years passes from the end of the declared state of emergency.19 HLS 12RS-147 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 709
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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)]
Badon HB No. 709
Abstract: Places a two-year limitation on certain provisions of law relative to registrants
displaced from their place of residence by the effects of a gubernatorially declared
state of emergency.
Present law provides relative to qualifications for registering to vote. Provides generally that
every citizen of the state who is at least 18 or will attain that age on or before the next
election is an actual bona fide resident of the state and the parish, municipality, if any, and
precinct in which he offers to register as a voter is not disfranchised and who complies with
the provisions of present law shall be eligible to register to vote in local, state, and national
elections held in the state.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law provides that a person who has been involuntarily displaced from his place of
residence by the effects of a gubernatorially declared state of emergency shall not be
considered to have vacated his residence and shall be considered to be an actual bona fide
resident of the state and parish in which he is registered to vote unless he has either
established a new domicile or has changed his registration to an address outside the voting
district.
Proposed law provides that present law will not apply after two years from the end of the
declared state of emergency. Otherwise retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 18:101(F))