HB1948
Absentee voting; removes witness requirement, required information on return ballot envelope.
Summary
As Enacted. Elections; absentee voting; witness requirement; required information on return ballot envelope; unique identifier.
Removes the witness requirement for absentee ballots and replaces it with the requirement that the voter provide the last four digits of his social security number and his birth year. The bill provides that the unique identifier assigned to the voter in the voter registration system will be accepted in ... (More) place of the last four digits of the voter's social security number for such purposes for those voters whose registration includes a statement of affirmation that they have never been issued a social security number. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2023 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100850D
- 01/10/2023 - House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/19/2023 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1948)
- 01/23/2023 - House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/25/2023 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/2023 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/27/2023 - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/2023 - House: Committee substitute printed 23105545D-H1
- 01/30/2023 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1948H1)
- 01/31/2023 - House: Read first time
- 02/01/2023 - House: Read second time
- 02/01/2023 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 23105545D-H1
- 02/01/2023 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1948H1
- 02/02/2023 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/2023 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2023 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/2023 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/14/2023 - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/16/2023 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2023 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/2023 - Senate: Passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)
- 02/22/2023 - House: Enrolled
- 02/22/2023 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1948ER)
- 02/22/2023 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1948ER)
- 02/22/2023 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/2023 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/2023 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/2023 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/27/2023 - House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 03/27/2023 - House: Governor's substitute printed 23107784D-H2
- 04/12/2023 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/12/2023 - House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 0-N)
- 04/12/2023 - House: VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
- 04/12/2023 - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/12/2023 - Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/12/2023 - House: Reenrolled
- 04/12/2023 - House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1948ER2)
- 04/12/2023 - House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/12/2023 - Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/12/2023 - House: Enacted, Chapter 785 (effective 7/1/23)
- 04/12/2023 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785)
