S.B. 32

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VOTER REGISTRATION INFORMATION IN
2 HIGH SCHOOLS
3 1997 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: R. Mont Evans
6 AN ACT RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION; PROVIDING VOTER REGISTRATION
7 FORMS TO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS; AND THE RETENTION OF VOTER
8 REGISTRATION FORMS BY THE COUNTY CLERK.
9 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
10 AMENDS:
11 20A-2-302, as enacted by Chapter 1, Laws of Utah 1993
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
13 Section 1. Section 20A-2-302 is amended to read:
14 20A-2-302. Voter registration forms for high school students.
15 (1) [In September and March of each year] Annually, the school board of each local public
16 school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall provide to
17 the county clerk an estimate of how many students are [18 years old or who within six months will
18 be 18] h [ over ] h 17 years old.
19 (2) (a) The county clerk shall [provide the public]:
20 (i) contact each high school [district] and accredited nonpublic high schools of the county[,
21 free of charge, a sufficient number of by-mail voter registration forms for distribution to the
22 students who are eligible to register or are about to become eligible to register to vote.];
23 (ii) determine the number of high school seniors; and
24 (iii) distribute an equal number of by-mail voter registration forms to each accredited
25 public or private high school.
26 (b) The county clerk shall keep on file the returned high school student by-mail voter
27 registration forms until the applicant turns 18 years old and then register the applicant to vote.

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1 (3) Each public school and accredited nonpublic school shall [make the]:
2 (a) include the by-mail voter registration [forms available to any unregistered student who
3 is or who within six months will be 18 years old.] form in the senior registration packet S [ [ ] ; and
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Amend on 2_goldenrod February 10, 1997
Amend on 3_goldenrod February 11, 1997
Restored bill to original language. 4 (b) collect and forward completed by-mail voter registration forms to the county clerk [ ] ] s .




Legislative Review Note
as of 12-4-96 9:25 AM

A limited legal review of this bill raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel

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