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ACT No. 173
Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 501
BY REPRESENTATIVE WESLEY BISHOP
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 18:114(B)(1) and 173(A) and (D)(1) and to enact R.S.2
18:101(A)(3), relative to voter registration; to provide for the "Louisiana Motor3
Voter Preregistration Act"; to provide relative to qualifications for voter registration;4
to allow persons who are sixteen years of age to register to vote under certain5
circumstances; to provide relative to voter registration at driver's license facilities;6
to provide relative to certain reports to election officials concerning deaths; and to7
provide for related matters.8
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:9
Section 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Louisiana Motor Voter10
Preregistration Act".11
Section 2. R.S. 18:114(B)(1) and 173(A) and (D)(1) are hereby amended and12
reenacted and R.S. 18:101(A)(3) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 13
§101. Registration to vote; qualifications; more than one residence; presidential14
elections15
A.16
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(3) A person who is sixteen years of age may register to vote in the manner18
provided in R.S. 18:114(B)(1). However, no one under the age of eighteen years19
shall be permitted to vote in any election.20
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§114. Registration at driver's license facilities1
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B.(1) Each application to obtain, renew, or change the name or address on3
a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department of Public Safety and4
Corrections made by an applicant who is eighteen years or older shall also serve as5
an application for voter registration by the applicant unless the applicant declines to6
register to vote through specific declination or by failing to sign the voter registration7
application. Each application to obtain a driver's license issued by the Department8
of Public Safety and Corrections made by an applicant who is sixteen years old shall9
also serve as an application for voter registration by the applicant unless the10
applicant declines to register to vote through specific declination or by failing to sign11
the voter registration application. In addition, any person age seventeen may register12
to vote at any time prior to the first election at which he shall have attained the age13
of eighteen years. However, no one under the age of eighteen years shall be14
permitted to vote in any election.15
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§173. Deaths17
A. By the tenth day of each month, the secretary of the Department of Health18
and Hospitals shall send to the registrar in each parish a report, certified as correct19
over his signature or the signature of his authorized representative, containing the20
name, address, and sex of each person of at least seventeen sixteen years of age who21
died in the parish within the preceding calendar month.22
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D.(1) By the tenth day of each month, the secretary of the Department of24
Health and Hospitals shall send to the Department of State a report, certified as25
correct over his signature or the signature of his authorized representative, containing26
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exists in the database of the Department of Health and Hospitals, of any person1
seventeen sixteen years of age or older who died in each parish of the state within the2
preceding calendar month.3
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Section 3. This Act shall become effective on January 1, 2015.5
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: