HB91 Alabama 2014 Session

Existing law does not specifically provide a penalty for a person or entity who collects voter registration applications and fails to deliver the applications to the appropriate board of registrars

This bill would require each person or entity who collects voter registration applications to deliver the applications to the appropriate board of registrars within 72 hours after the collection of the applications

This bill would provide criminal penalties for violations of this act

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to voter registration; to require each person or entity who collects voter registration applications to deliver the applications to the appropriate board of registrars within 72 hours after collection of the applications; to provide penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.