1 HB123
2 204066-4
3 By Representative Faulkner
4 RFD: Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
5 First Read: 02-FEB-21
6 PFD: 01/26/2021
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2 ENROLLED, An Act,
3 Relating to voter registration lists; to amend
4 Section 17-4-33, Code of Alabama 1975, to permit a registered
5 voter or the spouse of a registered voter, who is a federal or
6 state prosecutor, federal, state, probate, or municipal judge,
7 or law enforcement officer, to submit a signed written
8 affidavit requesting that the Secretary of State omit all
9 information except the name of the registered voter or the
10 spouse of the registered voter.
11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
12 Section 1. Section 17-4-33, Code of Alabama 1975, is
13 amended to read as follows:
14 "17-4-33.
15 "(a) The State of Alabama shall provide, through the
16 Secretary of State, a nondiscriminatory, single, uniform,
17 official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide
18 voter registration list defined, maintained, and administered
19 by the Secretary of State, with advice from the Voter
20 Registration Advisory Board and the President of the Alabama
21 Probate Judges Association, which contains the name and
22 registration information of every legally registered voter in
23 the state. The computerized list shall comply with the
24 following requirements:
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1 "(1) It shall serve as the single system for storing
2 and managing the official list of registered voters throughout
3 the state.
4 "(2) It shall contain the name, address, and voting
5 location, as well as other information deemed necessary by the
6 Voter Registration Advisory Board or the Secretary of State,
7 of every legally registered voter in the state.
8 "(3) A unique identifier shall be assigned to each
9 legally registered voter in the state.
10 "(4) It shall contain the voting history of each
11 registered voter.
12 "(5) It shall be coordinated with the driver's
13 license database of the Department of Public Safety and the
14 appropriate state agency to assist in the removal of deceased
15 voters.
16 "(6) Any election official in the state, including
17 any local election official, may obtain immediate electronic
18 access to the information contained in the computerized list.
19 "(7) All voter registration information obtained by
20 any registrar in the state shall be electronically entered
21 into the computerized list on an expedited basis at the time
22 information is provided to the registrar.
23 "(8) The Secretary of State shall provide such
24 support as may be required so that registrars are able to
25 enter voter registration information.
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1 "(9) It shall serve as the official voter
2 registration list for the conduct of all elections.
3 "(10) Following each state and county election, the
4 Secretary of State shall provide one electronic copy of the
5 computerized voter list free of charge to each political party
6 that satisfied the ballot access requirements for that
7 election. The electronic copy of the computerized voter list
8 shall be provided within 30 days of the certification of the
9 election or upon the completion of the election vote history
10 update following the election, whichever comes first. In
11 addition, upon written request from the chair of a political
12 party, the Secretary of State shall furnish up to two
13 additional electronic copies of the computerized voter file
14 during each calendar year to each political party that
15 satisfied the ballot access requirements during the last
16 statewide election held prior to that calendar year. The
17 electronic copies provided pursuant to this section shall
18 contain the full, editable data as it exists in the
19 computerized voter list maintained by the Secretary of State.
20 "(11) The list shall be maintained so that it is
21 technologically secure.
22 "(b) The Secretary of State, or judge of probate, or
23 absentee election manager, or municipal clerk, or registrar
24 shall include the name and omit the residential and mailing
25 address all other information of a registered voter on any
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1 generally available list of registered voters, except for
2 those lists provided to federal and state agencies, upon the
3 written signed affidavit of the registered voter to the board
4 of registrars of the county in which the individual is
5 registered or intends to register, affirming either one of the
6 following:
7 "(1) That the registered voter, or a minor who is in
8 the legal custody of the registered voter, is or has been the
9 victim of domestic violence as provided in Article 7,
10 commencing with Section 13A-6-130, of Chapter 6 of Title 13A.
11 "(2) That a domestic violence order is or has been
12 issued by a judge or magistrate pursuant to the Domestic
13 Violence Protection Order Enforcement Act, to restrain access
14 to the registered voter or a minor who is in the legal custody
15 of the registered voter.
16 "(3) That the registered voter is a federal or state
17 prosecutor, federal, state, probate, or municipal judge,
18 legislator, or law enforcement officer as defined in Chapter
19 21 of Title 36 or the spouse of a federal or state prosecutor,
20 federal, state, probate, or municipal judge, legislator, or
21 law enforcement officer as defined in Chapter 21 of Title 36.
22 The Secretary of State shall develop and provide to each
23 county the affidavit to be completed under this subsection."
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1 Section 2. This act shall become effective
2 immediately following its passage and approval by the
3 Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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4 Speaker of the House of Representatives
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6 President and Presiding Officer of the Senate
7 House of Representatives
8 I hereby certify that the within Act originated in
9 and was passed by the House 16-MAR-21.
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11 Jeff Woodard
12 Clerk
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15 Senate 20-APR-21 Amended and Passed
Concurred in Sen-
16 House 27-APR-21
ate Amendment
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Statutes affected: Introduced: 17-4-33
Enrolled: 17-4-33