HB282 Summary

• Creates the Felony Voter Disqualification Act establishing a comprehensive list of 47 felonies involving moral turpitude that disqualify persons from voting under Alabama Constitution Article VIII.

• Disqualifying felonies include murder, manslaughter, rape, sodomy, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, terrorism, human trafficking, drug trafficking, child abuse, and obscene matter crimes involving minors.

• Requires county boards of registrars to continuously purge voter registration lists when notified of disqualifying convictions, with certified mail notice to affected voters before removal.

• Exempts disqualified voters from notice requirement if they receive face-to-face counseling from Board of Pardons and Paroles and execute documentation acknowledging voter disqualification and loss of civil and political rights.

• Requires circuit and district court clerks to furnish monthly lists of disqualified felony convictions to county registrars, with $100 penalty per willful failure to comply; effective three months after passage.