HB5887 Summary

• Election authorities must reject voter registration applications that lack satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship.

• Acceptable citizenship documentation includes driver's licenses or state ID cards indicating citizenship, birth certificates, U.S. passports, naturalization documents/certificates, documents under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, or Bureau of Indian Affairs/tribal enrollment cards.

• Persons already registered in Illinois on the effective date of this Act are deemed to have provided citizenship evidence and need not resubmit unless changing voter registration between counties.

• After citizenship is verified, election authorities must mark this in the voter's registration file and may destroy submitted citizenship documents after 2 years.

• Voter registration from another state or county does not constitute satisfactory citizenship evidence; residents updating their address within the same county do not need to resubmit citizenship documentation.