Bill Text: VA HJR552 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Constitutional amendment; registration of voters (first reference).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-08 - Left in Privileges and Elections [HJR552 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-HJR552-Prefiled.html
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:
Amend Section 2 of Article II of the Constitution of Virginia as follows:
Section 2. Registration of voters.
The General Assembly shall provide by law for the registration of all persons otherwise qualified to vote who have met the residence requirements contained in this article, and shall ensure that the opportunity to register is made available. Registrations accomplished prior to the effective date of this section shall be effective hereunder. The registration records shall not be closed to new or transferred registrations more than thirty days before the election in which they are to be used.
Applications to register shall require the applicant to provide the following information on a standard form: full name; date of birth; residence address; social security number or any portion thereof, if any, as may be required by law; whether the applicant is presently a United States citizen; and such additional information as may be required by law. All applications to register shall be completed by or at the direction of the applicant and signed by the applicant, unless physically disabled. No fee shall be charged to the applicant incident to an application to register.
Nothing in this article shall preclude the General Assembly from requiring as a prerequisite to registration to vote the ability of the applicant to read and complete in his own handwriting the application to register.
