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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislat ure (2022)
HOUSE BILL 2974 By: Olsen
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to elections; providing for query of
voter registration database; requiring cert ain
notification; requiring investigation for possible
criminal violation; providing exceptions; providing
for codification; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codi fied
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 4-120.11 of Title 26, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. No later than June 1 of each year, the State Election Board
shall perform a query of the entire voter registration data base to
determine how many individuals are registered at the same
residential address.
B. If more than ten registered voters share a single
residential address, the State Election B oard shall provide a list
of said voters to the secretary of the county el ection board, who
shall immediately notify the district attorney for that county.
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C. Upon receipt of such notification, the district attorney, or
a member of law enforcement designated by the district attorney,
shall investigate any possible criminal viol ation of the law related
to the voter registration.
D. Provided, this section shall not apply to registered voters
sharing a residential address at a nursing home, veterans center ,
medical facility, multiunit housing, installations of the Armed
Forces of the United States where uniformed or overseas voters, as
defined by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act,
are stationed, or other locations authorized in writing by the
Secretary of the State Ele ction Board.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS AND ETHICS, dated
03/02/2022 - DO PASS.