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IN HB1637

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/24/2019

Primary Sponsor

Donald Lehe

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Origin

House of Representatives

2019 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates the provision allowing college students in Indiana to choose between their school address or home address as their voting residence
  • Reclassifies presence for "educational purposes" as insufficient to establish voting residency in a precinct, treating college students the same as those with temporary employment
  • Removes the entire subsection (b) of IC 3-5-5-7 that specifically addressed postsecondary student voting residence options
  • Effective date: January 1, 2020
  • Introduced by Representative Lehe on January 24, 2019 and referred to the Committee on Elections and Apportionment

Legislative Description

College student voting. Removes the option of a student attending a postsecondary educational institution in Indiana to state the student's residence for purposes of voting as either: (1) the address where the student lives when the student attends the postsecondary educational institution where the student pursues the student's education; or (2) the address where the student lives when the student is not attending the postsecondary educational institution where the student pursues the student's education.

Last Action

First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment

1/24/2019

Committee Referrals

Elections and Apportionment1/24/2019

Full Bill Text

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