Bill Text: IL HB4362 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Removes provisions requiring the State Board of Elections, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department on Aging, and the Department of Employment Security to enter into an agreement to require each department to provide the State Board of Elections with any information necessary to transmit member data under the Electronic Registration Information Center Membership Agreement and requiring each director or secretary, as applicable, of each agency to deliver this information on an annual basis to the State Board of Elections pursuant to the agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4362 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4362-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4362 Introduced , by Rep. Maurice A. West, II SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/1A-45
Amends the Election Code. Removes provisions requiring the State Board of Elections, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department on Aging, and the Department of Employment Security to enter into an agreement to require each department to provide the State Board of Elections with any information necessary to transmit member data under the Electronic Registration Information Center Membership Agreement and requiring each director or secretary, as applicable, of each agency to deliver this information on an annual basis to the State Board of Elections pursuant to the agreement.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Section 1A-45 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/1A-45)
Sec. 1A-45. Electronic Registration Information Center.
(a) The State Board of Elections shall enter into an
agreement with the Electronic Registration Information Center
effective no later than January 1, 2016, for the purpose of
maintaining a statewide voter registration database. The State
Board of Elections shall comply with the requirements of the
Electronic Registration Information Center Membership
Agreement. The State Board of Elections shall require a term
in the Electronic Registration Information Center Membership
Agreement that requires the State to share identification
records contained in the Secretary of State's Driver Services
Department and Vehicle Services Department, the Department of
Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family
Services, the Department on Aging, and the Department of
Employment Security databases (excluding those fields
unrelated to voter eligibility, such as income or health
information).

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(b) The Secretary of State and the State Board of
Elections shall enter into an agreement to permit the
Secretary of State to provide the State Board of Elections
with any information required for compliance with the
Electronic Registration Information Center Membership
Agreement. The Secretary of State shall deliver this
information as frequently as necessary for the State Board of
Elections to comply with the Electronic Registration
Information Center Membership Agreement.
(b-5) (Blank). The State Board of Elections and the
Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services, the Department on Aging, and the Department
of Employment Security shall enter into an agreement to
require each department to provide the State Board of
Elections with any information necessary to transmit member
data under the Electronic Registration Information Center
Membership Agreement. The director or secretary, as
applicable, of each agency shall deliver this information on
an annual basis to the State Board of Elections pursuant to the
agreement between the entities.
(c) Any communication required to be delivered to a
registrant or potential registrant pursuant to the Electronic
Registration Information Center Membership Agreement shall
include at least the following message:
"Our records show people at this address may not be
registered to vote at this address, but you may be

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eligible to register to vote or re-register to vote at
this address. If you are a U.S. Citizen, a resident of
Illinois, and will be 18 years old or older before the next
general election in November, you are qualified to vote.
We invite you to check your registration online at
(enter URL) or register to vote online at (enter URL), by
requesting a mail-in voter registration form by (enter
instructions for requesting a mail-in voter registration
form), or visiting the (name of election authority) office
at (address of election authority)."
The words "register to vote online at (enter URL)" shall
be bolded and of a distinct nature from the other words in the
message required by this subsection (c).
(d) Any communication required to be delivered to a
potential registrant that has been identified by the
Electronic Registration Information Center as eligible to vote
but who is not registered to vote in Illinois shall be prepared
and disseminated at the direction of the State Board of
Elections. All other communications with potential registrants
or re-registrants pursuant to the Electronic Registration
Information Center Membership Agreement shall be prepared and
disseminated at the direction of the appropriate election
authority.
(e) The Executive Director of the State Board of Elections
or his or her designee shall serve as the Member
Representative to the Electronic Registration Information

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