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AL HB209
Bill
Status
5/11/2023
Primary Sponsor
Jamie Kiel
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AI Summary
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Prohibits any person from knowingly distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, prefilling, obtaining, or delivering another person's absentee ballot application or absentee ballot, with violation constituting a Class D felony.
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Allows voters requiring assistance to receive help from family members to the second degree of kinship, household residents who have lived with them for over six months, state and county election officials, probate judges, or court-appointed guardians/conservators.
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Makes it a Class C felony for a third party to knowingly receive payment for handling another voter's absentee ballot materials, and a Class B felony for anyone to knowingly pay a third party to perform these actions.
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Provides an affirmative defense if assistance is given to a voter due to being blind, disabled, or unable to read or write under federal law.
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Exempts electors voting through the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act from these restrictions; becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval.
Legislative Description
Relating to voting; to prohibit any person from distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, completing, obtaining, or delivering an absentee ballot application or absentee ballot of another person in certain circumstances; to provide for exceptions; to prohibit a person from receiving a payment or providing a payment to another person for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, completing, obtaining, or delivering an absentee ballot application or absentee ballot of another person in certain circumstance; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022.
Last Action
Read Second Time in Second House
5/23/2023