HB1524 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1524

Introduced 2/10/2005, by Rep. Chapin Rose

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

10 ILCS 5/1A-25

Amends the Election Code. When a local election authority submits information to the State Board of Elections for the centralized statewide voter registration list, requires that all information provided in the registration application process must be submitted with respect to registrants who have been verified as qualified to register. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning elections.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section 1A-25 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/1A-25)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Sec. 1A-25. Centralized statewide voter registration list. The centralized statewide voter registration list required by Title III, Subtitle A, Section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 shall be created and maintained by the State Board of Elections as provided in this Section.

(1) The centralized statewide voter registration list shall be compiled from the voter registration data bases of each election authority in this State. All information provided by applicants in the process of registering to vote, regardless of the medium in which it is provided and regardless of whether the information is required to be provided by law or is provided by the voter on a voluntary basis, shall be included in the submission of that voter registration to the statewide voter registration database, subject to the election authority verifying the voter registration qualifications of each applicant.

(2) All new voter registration forms and applications to register to vote shall be transmitted to the appropriate election authority. The election authority shall process and verify each voter registration form and electronically enter verified registrations on an expedited basis onto the statewide voter registration list. All original registration cards shall remain permanently in the office of the election authority as required by Sections 4-20, 5-28, and 6-65.

(3) The centralized statewide voter registration list shall:

(i) Be designed to allow election authorities to utilize the registration data on the statewide voter registration list pertinent to voters registered in their election jurisdiction on locally maintained software programs that are unique to each jurisdiction.

(ii) Allow each election authority to perform essential election management functions, including but not limited to production of voter lists, processing of absentee voters, production of individual, pre-printed applications to vote, administration of election judges, and polling place administration, but shall not prevent any election authority from using information from that election authority's own systems.

(4) The registration information maintained by each election authority shall at all times be synchronized with that authority's information on the statewide list on a constant, real-time basis.

To protect the privacy and confidentiality of voter registration information, the disclosure of any portion of the centralized statewide voter registration list to any person or entity other than to a State or local political committee and other than to a governmental entity for a governmental purpose is specifically prohibited.

(Source: P.A. 93-1071, eff. 6-1-05.)

Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other Public Act.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.