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WA HB1294

WA HB1294
Enhancing youth voter registration.

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Introduced
01/16/2015
In Committee
02/15/2016
Crossed Over
03/06/2015
Passed
Dead
03/10/2016

Introduced Session

2015-2016 Regular Session

Bill Summary

Enhancing youth voter registration.

AI Summary

This bill, known as the "Young Voter Registration Equality Act," aims to increase voter registration among young people by allowing them to preregister to vote earlier. Specifically, individuals who are sixteen or seventeen years old can now preregister at the Department of Licensing, and seventeen-year-olds can preregister through other means and electronically. Preregistration means signing up to vote before you are eligible to cast a ballot, which typically requires being eighteen years old. The bill clarifies that preregistered individuals will not have their names added to the voter database until they are eligible to vote in an upcoming election. It also updates existing laws to reflect these changes, including modifying the voter registration application to acknowledge that applicants must be seventeen years old to preregister and eighteen to vote, and ensuring that the process for offering voter registration at agencies and the Department of Licensing includes asking if applicants are seventeen or older and will be eighteen by the next election. Information provided for preregistration will remain confidential and exempt from public inspection.

Committee Categories

Government Affairs, Military Affairs and Security

Sponsors (42)

Steve Bergquist (D)*,  Sherry Appleton (D),  Brian Blake (D),  Reuven Carlyle (D),  Eileen Cody (D),  Hans Dunshee (D),  Jessyn Farrell (D),  Jake Fey (D),  Joe Fitzgibbon (D),  Roger Goodman (D),  Mia Gregerson (D),  Carol Gregory (D),  Zackary Hudgins (D),  Sam Hunt (D),  Laurie Jinkins (D),  Ruth Kagi (D),  Christine Kilduff (D),  Kristine Lytton (D),  Joan McBride (D),  James Moeller (D),  Luis Moscoso (D),  Lillian Ortiz-Self (D),  Tina Orwall (D),  Strom Peterson (D),  Eric Pettigrew (D),  Gerry Pollet (D),  Chris Reykdal (NP),  Marcus Riccelli (D),  June Robinson (D),  David Sawyer (D),  Mike Sells (D),  Tana Senn (D),  Larry Springer (D),  Melanie Stambaugh (R),  Derek Stanford (D),  Pat Sullivan (D),  Dean Takko (D),  Gael Tarleton (D),  Steve Tharinger (D),  Kevin Van De Wege (D),  Brady Walkinshaw (D),  Sharon Wylie (D), 

Last Action

By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (on 03/10/2016)

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