PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 2044
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1454
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, BRADFORD, V. BROWN, DRISCOLL, FREEMAN,
GIBBONS, GOODMAN, KINSEY, McCARTER, McNEILL, C. PARKER,
SCHLOSSBERG, SCHREIBER, SCHWEYER AND THOMAS, JULY 16, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JULY 16, 2015
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, further providing for absentee voting.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 14(a) of Article VII be amended to read:
ยง 14. Absentee voting.
(a) The Legislature shall, by general law, provide a manner
in which, and the time and place at which, qualified electors
may vote by mail, including, but not limited to, any military
elector, as defined by law, and qualified electors who may, on
the occurrence of any election, be absent from the municipality
of their residence, because their duties, occupation or business
require them to be elsewhere or who, on the occurrence of any
election, are unable to attend at their proper polling places
because of illness or physical disability or who will not attend
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a polling place because of the observance of a religious holiday
or who cannot vote because of election day duties, in the case
of a county employee, may vote, and for the return and canvass
of their votes in the election district in which they
respectively reside.
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Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
(b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
primary, general or municipal election which meets the
requirements of and is in conformance with section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and which occurs at least
three months after the proposed constitutional amendment is
passed by the General Assembly.
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