THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR
Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair
Senator Karl Rhoads, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017

DATE:

Friday, February 10, 2017

TIME:

9:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 016
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB334
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.
Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2020.  Repeals and amends provisions relating to polling places, including absentee polling places.  Establishes voter service centers to accommodate personal delivery of ballots.  Appropriates funds.

JDL, WAM

SB1066
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.
Beginning with the primary election in 2018, requires the office of elections to implement election by mail in a county with a population of fewer than 100,000 and beginning with the 2020 primary election, implement election by mail in each of the other counties for all elections.  Establishes an election by mail system, including requirements for ballots, replacement ballots, deficient return of ballots, electronic transmission of replacement ballots under certain circumstances, ballot counting, voter service centers, places of deposit, and election expenses and responsibilities.  Establishes procedures for postponed elections.  Makes conforming amendments to provide for an election by mail system.  Allows voters in an election by mail system to request that their ballots be temporarily forwarded to another address in or outside of the State for a single election or a primary or special primary election and the election immediately following it.  Appropriates funds for the implementation and administration of the elections by mail program.  Requires the office of elections to submit annual reports to the legislature from 2018 to 2024 regarding implementing the elections by mail program.

JDL, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

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