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PRINTER'S NO. 3339
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2718
Session of
2022
INTRODUCED BY RABB, BULLOCK, DAWKINS, KRAJEWSKI, HOHENSTEIN,
FIEDLER, DELLOSO, PARKER, SANCHEZ, SIMS AND CEPHAS,
JUNE 30, 2022
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 30, 2022
AN ACT
Amending Title 25 (Elections) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in voter registration, further providing for
qualifications to register; and, in voting procedures,
further providing for application for absentee ballots.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1301(a) of Title 25 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1301. Qualifications to register.
(a) Eligibility.--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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Section 2. Section 3302(a) of Title 25 is amended by adding
a paragraph and the section is amended by adding a subsection to
read:
§ 3302. Application for absentee ballots.
(a) General rule.--Notwithstanding the provisions of Part IV
(relating to voter registration) or the act of June 3, 1937
(P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, the
following persons may make application for an absentee ballot by
sending a letter or other signed document to the county board of
elections in the county in which the person's voting address is
located:
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(5) An inmate who is confined in a correctional
institution.
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(e) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Correctional institution." A penal institution,
penitentiary, State farm, reformatory, prison, jail, house of
correction or other institution for the incarceration or custody
of persons under sentence for offenses or awaiting trial or
sentence for offenses.
"Inmate." An offender who is committed to, under sentence to
or confined in a correctional institution.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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