Missouri HB 2829: Creates provisions requiring realtors and landlords to provide new residents with voter registration packets

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2829
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GUNBY.
5631H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.145, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to
voter registration of new residents.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
SectionA. Section 115.145, RSMo,isrepealedand threenew sectionsenactedin lieu
2 thereof, to be known as sections 115.145, 441.325, and 442.620, to read as follows:
115.145. Each election authority shall have the following duties with respect to
2 registration:
3 (1) Toconductregistrationatitsofficeorofficesthroughouttheentireyear,including
4 any four-week period prior to an election for the purpose of registration of persons for
5 subsequent elections, on all usual business days and during its regular office hours in the
6 manner required by this chapter;
7 (2) Toinstructanddirecteachdeputyregistrationofficialintheperformanceofhisor
8 her duties including those agencies mandated and optional, including as optional any
9 institution of higher education located in the state, under the National Voter Registration Act
10 of 1993 and to supply each deputy with the proper registration forms and other necessary
11 supplies;
12 (3) To designate the times, dates and places or areas for additional voter registration
13 by any deputy appointed pursuant to subsection 2 of section 115.143, and to publicize the
14 times, dates and places or areas of such registration in any manner reasonably calculated to
15 inform the public; provided, that the place or area for voter registration by deputies appointed
16 under subsection 3 of section 115.143 shall be located in the school for which the deputy has
17 been appointed;
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

18 (4) Retain all voter registration records and registration list maintenance records for a
19 minimum of two years. The election authority shall compile data from the records as may be
20 necessary for compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993;
21 (5) Number or use another system of identifying the original agency of the voter
22 registration application; and
23 (6) Make available for landlords and realtors a packet of information for new
24 residents, which shall include a voter registration form, instructions for the voter
25 registration form, a written explanation that adults already registered to vote in the
26 county will need to file a change of address, and any other information the election
27 authority deems appropriate.
441.325. Upon signing a lease for a residence, a landlord shall provide a lessee
2 with the voter-registration packet provided by the election authority of the county in
3 which the residence is located, as described under subdivision 6 of section 115.145.
442.620. Upon the closing of a sale of residential real estate, a realtor shall
2 provide a purchaser with the voter-registration packet provided by the election
3 authority of the county in which the real estate is located, as described under
4 subdivision 6 of section 115.145.
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