Bill Text: MO HB125 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows 17-year-olds to vote in presidential primaries if they will be 18 on the day of the general election

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-17 - Referred: Elections(H) [HB125 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2013-HB125-Introduced.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 125

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SOMMER (Sponsor), BERRY AND KELLEY (127) (Co-sponsors).

0635L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 115.133, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to qualifications of voters.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 115.133, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.133, to read as follows:

            115.133. 1. (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection and subsection 2 of this section, any citizen of the United States who is a resident of the state of Missouri and seventeen years and six months of age or older shall be entitled to register and to vote in any election which is held on or after [his] the person's eighteenth birthday.

            (2) Any person who is at least seventeen years of age on the day of a presidential primary election in this state and will be eighteen years of age on the state general election day established in subsection 1 of section 115.121 following such presidential primary election shall be entitled to vote in such presidential primary election.

            2. No person who is adjudged incapacitated shall be entitled to register or vote. No person shall be entitled to vote:

            (1) While confined under a sentence of imprisonment;

            (2) While on probation or parole after conviction of a felony, until finally discharged from such probation or parole; or

            (3) After conviction of a felony or misdemeanor connected with the right of suffrage.

            3. Except as provided in federal law or federal elections and in section 115.277, no person shall be entitled to vote if the person has not registered to vote in the jurisdiction of his or her residence prior to the deadline to register to vote.

  

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