PRINTER'S NO. 117
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
206
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, BREWSTER, TEPLITZ, STACK, BAKER, FONTANA,
BLAKE, SMITH, WILEY, BOSCOLA, COSTA, FARNESE, VANCE, LEACH
AND RAFFERTY, JANUARY 15, 2015
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 15, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
and defining membership of county boards of elections;
imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
elections," in preliminary provisions, further providing for
definitions; and, in voting by qualified absentee electors,
repealing qualified absentee electors; providing for absentee
voting; and further providing for applications for official
absentee ballots, for date of application for absentee
ballot, for approval of application for absentee ballot, for
official absentee voters ballots, for envelopes for official
absentee ballots, for delivering or mailing ballots, for
voting by absentee electors, for assistance in voting by
certain absentee electors, for canvassing of official
absentee ballots and for violation of provisions relating to
absentee voting.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 102(w) and (z.5) of the act of June 3,
1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election
Code, amended or added February 13, 1998 (P.L.72, No.18) and
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