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| 2 | 2 | | EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted |
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| 3 | 3 | | and is intended to be omitted in the law. |
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| 4 | 4 | | SECOND REGULAR SESSION |
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| 5 | 5 | | SENATE BILL NO. 1199 |
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| 6 | 6 | | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 7 | 7 | | INTRODUCED BY SENATOR TRENT. |
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| 8 | 8 | | 4384S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | To repeal sections 115.133 and 561.026, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to qualifications to vote, with existing penalty provisions and an effective date. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | Section A. Sections 115.133 and 561.026, RSMo, are 1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu there of, to be 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | known as sections 115.133 and 561.026, to read as follows:3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | 115.133. 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | this section, any citizen of the United States who is a 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | resident of the state of Missouri and seventeen years and 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | six months of age or older shall be entitled to register and 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | to vote in any election which is held on or after his 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | eighteenth birthday. 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | 2. No person who is adjudged incapacitated shall be 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | entitled to register or vote. No person shall be entitled 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | to vote: 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (1) While confined [under a sentence of imprisonment; 10 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (2) While on probation or parole ] after conviction of 11 |
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| 28 | 28 | | a felony[, until finally discharged from such probation or 12 |
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| 29 | 29 | | parole]; or 13 |
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| 30 | 30 | | [(3)] (2) After conviction of a felony or misdemeanor 14 |
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| 31 | 31 | | connected with the right of suffrage. 15 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 3. Except as provided in federal law or federal 16 |
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| 33 | 33 | | elections and in section 115.277, no person shall be 17 |
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| 34 | 34 | | entitled to vote if the person has not registered to vote in 18 SB 1199 2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | the jurisdiction of his or her residence prior to t he 19 |
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| 36 | 36 | | deadline to register to vote. 20 |
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| 37 | 37 | | 561.026. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 1 |
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| 38 | 38 | | except for section 610.140, a person who is convicted: 2 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) Of [any offense] a felony shall be disqualified 3 |
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| 40 | 40 | | from registering and voting in any election under the laws 4 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of this state while confined [under a sentence of 5 |
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| 42 | 42 | | imprisonment]; 6 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (2) Of a felony or misdemeanor connected with the 7 |
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| 44 | 44 | | exercise of the right of suffrage shall be forever 8 |
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| 45 | 45 | | disqualified from registering and voting; 9 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (3) Of any felony shall be forever disqualified from 10 |
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| 47 | 47 | | serving as a juror. 11 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Section B. Section A of this act shall become 1 |
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| 49 | 49 | | effective January 1, 2025. 2 |
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