ELECTIONS/ABSENTEE VOTE: Provides for the delivery of absentee ballots by a person other than the voter
This bill modifies the rules for submitting absentee ballots by removing the requirement that they be hand-delivered. It allows voters to use any method to submit their completed ballots, rather than restricting delivery to personal hand delivery. The change directly affects voters who currently rely on mail or other delivery services to return their absentee ballots. By expanding the accepted submission methods, the legislation aims to provide more flexibility in how absentee votes are returned.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Feb 29, 2024
Signed May 28, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 16, 2024 · House Apr 3, 2024
How they voted
27–11
Passed
Total votes 38
May 16, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Nay
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 6, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 1, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 3, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 31. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 26, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (6-5).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Feb 29, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Josh Carlson
RRepublican
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