PRINTER'S NO. 621
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
626
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BRIGGS, DERMODY, A. DAVIS, SCHLOSSBERG, O'MARA,
CALTAGIRONE, HOHENSTEIN, KINSEY, HILL-EVANS, FREEMAN,
RAVENSTAHL, WEBSTER, INNAMORATO, DALEY, MARKOSEK, T. DAVIS,
OTTEN, CIRESI, WARREN AND KIM, FEBRUARY 28, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 28, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Title 25 (Elections) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in voter registration, further providing for
qualifications to register.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1301 of Title 25 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 1301. Qualifications to register.
(a) Eligibility.--[An] Except as provided in subsection (d),
an individual who will be at least 18 years of age on the day of
the next election, who has been a citizen of the United States
for at least one month prior to the next election and who has
resided in this Commonwealth and the election district where the
individual offers to vote for at least 30 days prior to the next
ensuing election and has not been confined in a penal
institution for a conviction of a felony within the last five
years shall be eligible to register as provided in this chapter.
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(b) Effect.--No individual shall be permitted to vote at any
election unless the individual is registered under this
subsection, except as provided by law or by order of a court of
common pleas. No person registered under subsection (d) shall be
permitted to vote until that person attains 18 years of age. No
registered elector shall be required to register again for any
election while the elector continues to reside at the same
address.
(c) Removal of residence.--Except as otherwise provided by
this part, a registered elector who removes residence from one
place to another outside the elector's last election district
shall not be entitled to vote in the election district of the
elector's last residence except pursuant to the provisions of
this section and sections 1501(b) (relating to removal notices),
1502 (relating to transfer of registration) and 1902 (relating
to procedure for voting following failure to return notification
card).
(d) Preregistration.--A person who is at least 16 years of
age but will not be 18 years of age by the date of the next
election, but is otherwise qualified to register under
subsection (a), may preregister on satisfactory proof of age. A
preregistered person shall be automatically registered under
this section by the SURE system once that person reaches 18
years of age.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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