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AL HB53
Bill
Status
1/11/2022
Primary Sponsor
Laura Hall
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AI Summary
HB 53 Summary
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Eliminates the application requirement for voting rights restoration and requires the Board of Pardons and Paroles to conduct an automatic review for individuals who have lost voting rights due to criminal conviction and have been pardoned or released from incarceration, probation, or parole.
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Allows indigent individuals to restore voting rights by complying with either an approved interest-free payment plan for fines and court costs, or an approved community service plan (alone or in combination with a payment plan).
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Requires the Board of Pardons and Paroles to establish a community service program by December 31, 2022, to provide options for individuals demonstrating economic hardship.
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Maintains voting rights restrictions for individuals convicted of impeachment, murder, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, incest, sexual torture, child exploitation offenses, obscene matter offenses, and treason.
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Requires annual review of individuals on payment or community service plans, with suspension of voting rights for non-compliance until the individual complies with an amended plan for one year; mandates notification procedures between the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Secretary of State, and county boards of registrars.
Legislative Description
Voting rights restoration, application requirement eliminated, Board of Pardons and Paroles to determine eligibility to receive Certificate of Eligibility to Register to Vote, indigent individual's voting rights to be restored if individual is in compliance with approved payment plan for payment of fines, court costs and fees, Secs. 15-22-36.1, 17-3-31 am'd.
Voters and Voting
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
1/11/2022