HB 227 Summary

• Requires voters casting ballots in person to provide valid photo identification to election officials prior to voting, with limited exceptions.

• Defines valid photo identification as cards containing the voter's name matching the poll book, a photograph, an expiration date, and issued by the United States, State of Alabama, or another U.S. state or territory.

• Permits alternative forms of identification including utility bills, bank statements, government checks, U.S. passports, hunting/fishing licenses, military IDs, birth certificates, Social Security cards, and Medicaid/Medicare cards.

• Exempts absentee voters covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act from identification requirements; allows voters at nursing homes and those with religious objections to being photographed to vote by provisional ballot.

• Requires the Department of Public Safety to issue free nondriver identification cards to individuals aged 18 or older without valid photo identification who are eligible to vote at the next election.