SB 6021 — Extending the period for voter registration.

S-3862.1SUBSTITUTES-3273.1SENATE SENATE BILL 6021State of Washington65th Legislature2018 Regular SessionBy Senate State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections (originally sponsored by Senators Kuderer, Billig, Darneille, Palumbo, Frockt, Rolfes, Liias, Keiser, Pedersen, Hunt, Wellman, Conway, Saldaña, Hasegawa, Mullet, and Nelson)READNelsonPrefiled FIRST12/13/17. TIME 01/15/18.AN ACT Relating to extending the period for voter registration;

amendingRead RCWfirst 29A.08.140,time 29A.08.110,01/08/18. 29A.08.410, 29A.40.160, and 29A.32.031;

providingReferred anto effectiveCommittee date;on State Government, Tribal Relations & Elections.AN ACT Relating to extending the period for voter registration;

andamending providingRCW an29A.08.140, expiration29A.08.110, date.BE29A.08.410, IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:Sec. 1.  RCW 29A.08.140 and 201129A.40.160; c 10 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:(1) In order to vote in any primary, special election, or general election, a person who is not registered to vote in Washington must:(a) Submit a registration application that is received no later than ((twenty-nine)) eight days before the day of the primary, special election, or general election;

and providing an effective date.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:Sec. 1.  RCW 29A.08.140 and 2011 c 10 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:(1) In order to vote in any primary, special election, or general election, a person who is not registered to vote in Washington must:(a) Submit a registration application no later than ((twenty-nine)) eight days before the day of the primary, special election, or general election;

The secretary of state shall,shall pursuant to RCW 29A.04.611, establish procedures to enable new or updated voter registrations to be recorded on an expedited basis.

A voting center opened pursuant to this subsection (2) is not required to be open on the Sunday before the presidential election.(3) Voting centers shall be located in public buildings or buildings that are leased by a public entity including, but not limited to, libraries.(4) Each voting center, and at least one of the other locations designated by the county auditor to allow voters to register in person pursuant to RCW 29A.08.140(1)(b), must provide voter registration materials, ballots, provisional ballots, disability access voting units, sample ballots, instructions on how to properly vote the ballot, a ballot drop box, and voters' pamphlets, if a voters' pamphlet has been published.(((3) The)) (5) Each voting center must be accessible to persons with disabilities.

The county auditor has discretion to establish which services will be provided at the additional locations, and which days and hours the locations will be open, except that the county auditor must establish a minimum of one ballot drop box per fifteen thousand registered voters in the county and a minimum of one ballot drop box in each city, town, and census-designated place in the county with a post office.Sec. 5.  RCWoffice.NEW 29A.32.031SECTION.  Sec. 5.  This andact 2013takes ceffect 283June s30, 22019.--- areEND each--- amended to read as follows:The voters' pamphlet published or distributed under RCW 29A.32.010 must contain:(1) Information about each measure for an advisory vote of the people and each ballot measure initiated by or referred to the voters for their approval or rejection as required by RCW 29A.32.070;(2) In even-numbered years, statements, if submitted, from candidates for the office of president and vice president of the United States, United States senator, United States representative, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general, commissioner of public lands, superintendent of public instruction, insurance commissioner, state senator, state representative, justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of appeals, or judge of the superior court.

Candidates may also submit campaign contact information and a photograph not more than five years old in a format that the secretary of state determines to be suitable for reproduction in the voters' pamphlet;(3) In odd-numbered years, if any office voted upon statewide appears on the ballot due to a vacancy, then statements and photographs for candidates for any vacant office listed in subsection (2) of this section must appear;(4) Contact information for the public disclosure commission established under RCW 42.17A.100, including the following statement:

"For a list of the people and organizations that donated to state and local candidates and ballot measure campaigns, visit www.pdc.wa.gov." The statement must be placed in a prominent position, such as on the cover or on the first two pages of the voters' pamphlet.

The secretary of state may substitute such language as is necessary for accuracy and clarity and consistent with the intent of this section;(5) Contact information for major political parties;(6) A brief statement explaining the deletion and addition of language for proposed measures under RCW 29A.32.080;

((and))(7) For the 2018 general election, information regarding the changes in the deadlines to register to vote made by chapter .

., Laws of 2018 (this act);

and(8) Any additional information pertaining to elections as may be required by law or in the judgment of the secretary of state is deemed informative to the voters.NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6.  Sections 1 through 4 of this act take effect June 30, 2019.NEW SECTION.  Sec. 7.  Section 5 of this act expires January 1, 2019.--- END ---