Arizona SB 1470: lottery game; veterans assistance

Bill Text

SB1470 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: voter registration changes; text notices

 State of Arizona

 Senate

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 SB 1470

 Introduced by 

 Senator 
 Kavanagh

AN 
ACT

amending section 16-163, Arizona Revised 
Statutes; RELATING to voter registration rolls.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-163, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-163. Assignment of registrations to general county register; 
exception; notification to elector; electronic storage of registration forms; 
voter information change; notice

A. The county recorder, on receipt of a registration 
in proper form, shall assign the registration record to its proper precinct and 
alphabetical arrangement in the general county register. The general 
county register shall be preserved permanently to reflect the registration as 
of each general election. After the general county register is 
revised to reflect the valid registrations for the general election, the county 
recorder shall provide the Arizona state library, archives and public records 
with a copy of the revised county register.

B. After placing the record of registration in the 
county general register, the county recorder shall notify the elector within 
thirty days in writing that the elector's name appears in the general register.

C. If the notice that is sent is returned 
undeliverable, the county recorder may send an additional notice as prescribed 
by section 16-166, subsection A and that notice shall indicate that the 
elector must respond not later than thirty-five days after the mailing of 
the notice.

D. Images of original registration forms shall be 
stored electronically in the voter registration database. All 
original registration forms that are canceled, and all original applications 
for cancellation of registration received since the preceding general election, 
also shall be maintained in the voter registration database.� Computer output 
microfilm, listings or other electronic format media containing the information 
from the general county register after each general election shall be provided 
to the Arizona state library, archives and public records and shall serve to 
fulfill the requirements of this section and section 16-164, subsection 
A.

E. When the county recorder makes a change to the 
information prescribed by section 16-152 for an existing registered 
voter:

1. The county recorder shall notify the elector of 
any changes made to the following information prescribed 
by section 16-152 for the elector: by 
sending a text message or email alert within twenty-four hours after 
making the change as requested by the elector's subscription preferences

(a) Active 
early voting list status.

(b) Party 
preference.

(c) Residence 
address.

(d) Mailing 
address.

2. the county recorder shall make the 
notification prescribed in paragraph 1 of this subsection by either:

(a) Sending a 
text message or email alert within twenty-four hours after making the 
change as requested by the elector's subscription preferences.

2. (b) If the elector has not subscribed to the voter 
registration alert system, the county recorder shall notify 
notifying the elector in writing within ten days after 
the change in the information prescribed by section 16-152 
for the elector.

F. The notice prescribed 
by subsection E of this section shall include instructions on how the 
elector may check the elector's voter registration status, make any revisions 
to the elector's voter registration information and notify the county recorder 
if the elector did not request or authorize the change to the information 
prescribed by section 16-152 for the elector's voter registration. END_STATUTE