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MN SF241

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/17/2019

Primary Sponsor

Mary Kiffmeyer

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Origin

Senate

91st Legislature 2019-2020

AI Summary

  • County auditors must produce a report within two weeks of completing election day registrant entries identifying voters whose records were updated due to voting, and investigate records challenged for eligibility reasons.

  • County auditors must notify law enforcement or the county attorney if they determine a voter appears to have been ineligible to vote and either registered or voted in the previous election.

  • The secretary of state must develop an inactive voter report within the statewide voter registration system identifying inactive voters who registered on election day and were possibly ineligible, applicable for elections on or after June 1, 2019.

  • $1,534,000 from the Help America Vote Act account is appropriated to the secretary of state in fiscal year 2019 for modernizing, securing, and updating the statewide voter registration system and cybersecurity upgrades, available until March 23, 2023.

  • $163,000 is transferred from the general fund to the Help America Vote Act account in fiscal year 2019 to satisfy the state match requirement, and $167,000 in prior expenditures for secure system access is credited toward the match requirement.

Legislative Description

Help America Vote Act account appropriation for certain authorized purposes; statewide voter registration system reports use requirement

Last Action

(Non-revisor companion) HF14

2/27/2019

Committee Referrals

Finance2/11/2019
State Government Finance and Policy and Elections1/17/2019

Full Bill Text

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