Bill Text: PA HB1596 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for Voting Standards Development Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-11 - Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS [HB1596 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1596-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1988
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1596 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY JOSEPHS, JUNE 3, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 3, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
and defining membership of county boards of elections;
imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
elections," further providing for Voting Standards
Development Board.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 204(h) of the act of June 3, 1937
(P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code,
amended May 12, 2006 (P.L.178, No.45), is amended to read:
Section 204. Voting Standards Development Board.--* * *
(h) (1) The board shall have the power and duty to develop
uniform and nondiscriminatory standards that define what
constitutes a valid vote cast through a paper ballot and what
constitutes a valid vote through each type of electronic voting
system used in the Commonwealth. On or before July 1, 2003, the
board shall adopt standards for paper ballots and each type of
electronic voting system. The department shall cause these
standards to be published as a notice in the Pennsylvania
Bulletin.
(2) The standards adopted by the board and published by the
Department of State in the Pennsylvania Bulletin Volume 33
Number 31 on August 2, 2003, shall, for [the general election in
2004 and] any primary, municipal, special and general election
[in 2006 and 2007] held hereafter, have the force and effect of
law.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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