PRINTER'S NO. 1125
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
818
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, SANTARSIERO, BOSCOLA, FONTANA, FARNESE,
KEARNEY, COSTA, HUGHES, MUTH, YUDICHAK, HAYWOOD AND BREWSTER,
AUGUST 7, 2019
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, AUGUST 7, 2019
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,
further providing for qualified absentee electors, for
applications for official absentee ballots, for date of
application for absentee ballot, for approval of application
for absentee ballot, for absentee electors files and lists,
for delivering or mailing ballots, for voting by absentee
electors, for assistance in voting by certain absentee
electors and for canvassing of official absentee ballots.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 102(z.5)(3) of the act of June 3, 1937
(P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, is
amended to read:
Section 102. Definitions.--The following words, when used in
this act, shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise
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