RESOLUTION PROPOSING A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ALLOW INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE OF SIXTEEN TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION AS ELECTORS AND TO BE SO ADMITTED UPON ATTAINING THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.

HJ 47 proposes a constitutional amendment allowing state citizens aged 16 to apply for voter registration in advance, with voting rights activating on their 18th birthday if they applied and meet other eligibility requirements. This would permit 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister as voters, though they could not cast ballots until turning 18. The amendment would appear on the November 2026 general election ballot, with a one-time $35,000 cost for ballot printing in fiscal year 2027. The ballot question asks voters to approve "allowing citizens who have attained the age of sixteen years to preregister to be an elector, for the purpose of becoming an elector on such citizen's eighteenth birthday."