Bill Text: PA HB1198 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for failure to vote.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-28 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB1198 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1198-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1310
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1198 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, YOUNGBLOOD, W. KELLER, M. O'BRIEN AND SWANGER, MARCH 28, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 28, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 25 (Elections) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for failure to vote.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1510 of Title 25 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 1510. Failure to vote.
(a) Check of electors.--By April 1 of each year except in a
year in which the commission conducts a check of electors under
section 1506(c) (relating to checkup of registers), the
commission shall examine all of the district registers.
(b) Suspension.--A qualified elector who has been registered
for a period of at least two immediately preceding calendar
years but who is not recorded as having voted at an election
during that period [is subject to suspension of registration in
accordance with the following procedure:
(1) If a registered elector who has been registered for
a period of at least two immediately preceding calendar years
is not recorded as having voted at an election during that
period, the commission shall send to the registered elector
by mail, at the address appearing upon the registration card,
a notice setting forth that the records of the commission
indicate that the registered elector has not voted during the
two immediately preceding calendar years and that the
registered elector's registration will be canceled at the
expiration of 30 days from the date of mailing the notice
unless the registered elector, within that period, files with
the commission either personally or by mail a written request
for reinstatement of registration or a removal notice
properly executed setting forth the registered elector's
place of residence and signed by the registered elector.
(2) Within 30 days from the date of mailing of the
notice under paragraph (1), the registered elector must file
with the commission either personally or by mail a written
request for reinstatement of registration or a properly
executed removal notice which sets forth the registered
elector's place of residence and which is signed by the
registered elector. The official registration application
card of a registered elector who has registered by mail
qualifies as a request for reinstatement of registration or a
removal notice under this paragraph.
(3) Within 30 days from the date of mailing of the
notice under paragraph (1), the commission shall cancel the
registration of a registered elector who has not complied
with paragraph (2)] shall have his registration canceled.
(c) Effect.--Cancellation of registration under this section
shall not affect the right of a qualified elector to
subsequently register in the manner provided by this part.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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