ENROLLEDHCAHB691 3645 2429 HOUSE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS Regular Session HOUSEAmendments BILLproposed NO.by House Committee on House and Governmental Affairs to Original House Bill No.

691 BYby REPRESENTATIVERepresentative BEAULLIEUBeaullieu ANDAMENDMENT SENATORSNO. CATHEY, HODGES, KLEINPETER, MIGUEZ, MORRIS, TALBOT, AND WOMACK AN ACT To enact R.S.

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to provide for the duties of the secretary of state;

to provide for reporting requirements;

to provide relative to appropriations;

and to provide for related matters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:

Section 1.

R.S.

18:49.2 is hereby enacted to read as follows:

§49.2.

Systematic alien verification for entitlements program review A.

For purposes of this Section, "SAVE" means the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program administered by the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security.

B.(1) The secretary shall annually submit to SAVE a check against every registrantinthestatevoterregistrationcomputersystemforwhichtherequisitestate data exists.

The data shall be submitted prior to one hundred eighty days before a regularly scheduled federal general election.

(2) The secretary shall submit the name of every potential noncitizen registrant to the division of election integrity for investigation.

C.

Upon receipt of the name of a potential noncitizen registrant from the secretary, the division of election integrity shall conduct an investigation.

If the Page 1 of 2 CODING:

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691 ENROLLED division determines that there may be a noncitizen registrant in the state voter registration computer system, the division shall submit the findings of the investigation to the appropriate prosecutorial agency for further investigation or prosecution.

D.

The secretary shall transmit any noncitizen matches verified by the divisionofelectionintegritytotheappropriateparishregistrarofvoterstochallenge the individual's registration in accordance with R.S.

18:193.

E.

Thesecretaryshallincludethefollowinginformationintheannualreport to the legislature provided for in R.S.

18:18(A)(4):

(1) ThenumberofrecordscheckedagainstSAVEdataduringtheprioryear.

(2) The number of registrants challenged as potential noncitizens.

(3) The number of registrants whose voter registration was cancelled as a noncitizen.

(4) Any recommendations for statutory or administrative improvements to ensure voter registration list accuracy.

F.

All SAVE data and related voter information shall be processed in a secure environment consistent with state and federal data protection standards and in accordance with R.S.