SB1026
Absentee voting; no-excuse, in-person, beginning on second Saturday immediately preceding election.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person voting available beginning on second Saturday immediately preceding election.
Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person beginning on the second Saturday immediately preceding any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for an absentee ballot. The bill makes absentee voting in person available beginning on ... (More) the forty-fifth day prior to the election and ending at 5:00 p.m. on the Saturday immediately preceding the election. The bill retains the current provisions for voting with an absentee ballot by mail or in person prior to the second Saturday immediately preceding the election, including the application requirement and the list of statutory reasons for absentee voting. The provisions of the bill do not become effective until the November 3, 2020, general election, and the State Board of Elections is required to submit a report on the procedures and instructions it promulgates for conducting absentee voting pursuant to the provisions of the bill. This bill is identical to HB 2790. (Less)-
Bill History
- 10/17/2018 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100137D
- 10/17/2018 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/18/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (SB1026)
- 01/21/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1026)
- 01/29/2019 - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2019 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106127D-S1
- 01/29/2019 - Senate: Incorporates SB1035 (Locke)
- 01/29/2019 - Senate: Incorporates SB1075 (Howell)
- 01/29/2019 - Senate: Incorporates SB1198 (Dance)
- 01/31/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/2019 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/01/2019 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/01/2019 - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19106127D-S1
- 02/01/2019 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1026S1
- 02/04/2019 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1026S1)
- 02/06/2019 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2019 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2019 - House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/06/2019 - House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/12/2019 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/2019 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/15/2019 - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (18-Y 4-N)
- 02/18/2019 - House: Read second time
- 02/19/2019 - House: Read third time
- 02/19/2019 - House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/19/2019 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/19/2019 - House: Passed House with amendments (89-Y 10-N)
- 02/19/2019 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (89-Y 10-N)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Reconsideration of House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/21/2019 - Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (37-Y 3-N)
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1026ER)
- 02/23/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/23/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1026ER)
- 03/04/2019 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- 03/04/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/21/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 669 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/21/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0669)
