Bill Text: CT HB06486 | 2013 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Changes Of Addresses For Electors.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-12 - Signed by the Governor [HB06486 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06486-Chaptered.html
Substitute House Bill No. 6486
AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES OF ADDRESSES FOR ELECTORS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 9-35 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2013):
(e) In any case in which the registrars have obtained reliable information of an elector's change of address within the municipality, [they] the registrars shall enter the name of such elector on the registry list at the place where the elector then resides, provided, if such reliable information is the National Change of Address System of the United States Postal Service, the registrar shall change the registry list and send the elector a notice of the change by forwardable mail and a postage prepaid preaddressed return form by which the elector may verify or correct the address information. If during the canvass the registrars determine that an elector has moved out of [town] the municipality and such elector has not confirmed in writing that the elector has moved out of the [town] municipality, the registrars shall, not later than May first, send to the elector, by forwardable mail, a notice required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, P. L. 103-31, as amended from time to time, together with a postage prepaid preaddressed return card on which the elector may state the elector's current address. In the year of a presidential preference primary, the registrars shall send such notice not earlier than the date of such primary. If the registrar does not receive the return card within thirty days after it is sent, the elector's name, including the name of an elector who has not voted in two consecutive federal elections, shall be placed on the inactive registry list for four years. At the expiration of such period of time on the inactive registry list, such name shall be removed from the registry list. If such elector applies to restore the elector's name to the active registry list or votes during such period, the elector's name shall be restored to the active registry list. Such registrars shall retain a duplicate copy or record of each such notice in their office or, if [they] the registrars do not have a permanent office, in the office space provided under section 9-5a, and shall note on such duplicate copy or record the date on which such notice was mailed. In each municipality, any elector, upon change of residence within the municipality, may cause the elector's registration to be transferred to the elector's new address by presenting to the registrars [a signed request therefor, stating the elector's present address, the date the elector moved to such address and the address at which the elector was last registered] a new application for voter registration. The registrars shall thereupon enter the elector's name on the list at the elector's new residence; provided no transfer of registration shall be made on the registry list on election day without the consent of [both registrars] each registrar.