Bills We Support, lets get them passed!
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We support passage of this bill
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, requires a third-party voter registration organization to register and provide certain information to the coordinator of elections before engaging in a voter registration event or program; prohibits persons and organizations collecting voter registrations from taking certain actions with regard to the voter registrations and provides civil penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Comments;
3rd party voter registration.
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, requires each person, corporation, organization, partnership, or political party that seeks to provide training or conferences related to the administration of elections to county election commissions to be approved by the secretary of state prior to providing such training or conference. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Comments;
NGO training, needs stronger language - asking for an amendment.
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, requires a qualified voter to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election; requires a voter seeking to be placed on the permanent absentee voting register to file a physician's statement and application for ballot not later than 10 days before an election rather than not later than seven days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.
Comments;
Absentee application request changed from 10 to 7 days.
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Description of the legislation
Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher learning that holds personal information of students from sharing the personal information with a third party, unless the third party agrees in writing that the personal information will only be used for the purpose for which information is originally requested. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 49.
Comments;
This bill is in education
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, changes the date by which a county election commission may begin voting at nursing homes from 29 days before the election to 27 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Comments;
Nursing home voting shortened 29-27 days.
Bills We Do Not Support, They Do Not Help With Election Integrity!
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a county election commission to elect by majority vote to enter into the contract, lease, and option agreement with the coordinator of elections for the financing of the purchase of voting machines; clarifies that the county election commission selects the voting machines to be used in a county and is responsible for the destruction of the voting machines once the machines are deemed obsolete. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 5.
Comments;
Voting machine purchases without county commission approval.
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes up to two members of an LLC that owns property in a city to vote in the city's elections if the city's charter provides nonresident property owners voting rights. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.
Comments;
LLC's voting
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, changes the deadline for a person to register to vote from 30 days before an election to 15 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Comments;
Change registration days before an election from 30 to 15 days.
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the county election commission of Montgomery County to research and test methods, systems, and technologies that would allow members and employees of the United States armed forces and their dependents who are registered to vote in the county but are stationed outside the territorial limits of the United States to vote by means other than, or in addition to, mail. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.
Comments;
UOCAVA other methods of voting
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Description of the legislation
Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for the majority and minority party caucuses of the general assembly to nominate candidates for United States senator. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.