Early voting; joint committee of the House & Senate Committees on P & E to study costs & benefits.

Study; joint committee of the House and SenateCommittees on Privileges and Elections to study the costs and benefitsof 45 days of early voting. Establishes a joint committee of theHouse and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections to studythe costs and benefits of 45 days of early voting. In conductingits study, the joint committee shall survey several localities withinthe Commonwealth with different demographics, both urban and rural,to evaluate the fiscal impact on the locality and the ability of thelocality to meet the burden imposed by the need to increase staffingand maintain adequate facilities for early voting and to examinetrends in voter turnout. The joint committee shall gather data sufficient to allow it to determine if a shorter period of in-person votingcould accomplish most of the benefits of early in-person voting whilereducing the burden on localities.