Bill Text: IL SB2273 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that the Electronic Registration Information Center shall provide the exclusive interstate voter registration program for the State. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall not share identification records contained in databases maintained by State agencies with any interstate voter registration program other than the Electronic Registration Information Center. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-11-28 - Total Veto Stands [SB2273 Detail]

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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
Electronic Registration Information Center shall provide the
exclusive interstate voter registration program for the State
of Illinois, except as provided in subsection (b-11). 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 of Aging, and the Department of

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Employment Security databases (excluding those fields
unrelated to voter eligibility, such as income or health
information).
(b) The Secretary of State and the 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) 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.
(b-10) The State Board of Elections shall not share
identification records contained in databases maintained by
the Secretary of State's Driver Services Department and Vehicle
Services Department, the Department of Human Services, the

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Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of
Aging, the Department of Employment Security, or any other
State database containing identification records with any
interstate voter registration program other than the
Electronic Registration Information Center, except as provided
in subsection (b-11).
(b-11) The State Board of Elections may enter into an
exclusive voter data sharing agreement with a state that: (1)
borders Illinois, and (2) does not participate in the
Electronic Registration Information Center.
(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 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)."

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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 Center.
(f) The State Board of Elections may adopt any rules
necessary to enforce this Section or comply with the Electronic
Registration Information Center Membership Agreement.
(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)
Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
Section 8.42 as follows:
(30 ILCS 805/8.42 new)
Sec. 8.42. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8

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of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
the 100th General Assembly.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.