Loading chat...

AZ SB1025

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/12/2015

Primary Sponsor

Edward Ableser

Click for details

Origin

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature - First Regular Session (2015)

AI Summary

  • Lowers the voter registration age requirement from 18 years old to 16 years old, allowing 16-year-olds to register to vote in Arizona.

  • Maintains that registered voters must be at least 18 years of age before they are eligible to actually vote at any election, despite registering at 16.

  • Changes voter registration qualification language from "will be eighteen years of age or more on or before the date of the regular general election" to "is at least sixteen years of age" at time of registration.

  • Applies to all residents of Arizona who meet the other voter registration requirements: U.S. citizenship, state residency of 29 days, ability to write name or make mark, no felony convictions, and not adjudicated incapacitated.

Legislative Description

Voter registration; youth registrants

Last Action

Referred to Senate JUD Committee

1/13/2015

Full Bill Text

No bill text available