Arizona HB 2037: technical registration board; endorsement registration

Bill Text

HB2037 - 572R - I Ver 

PREFILED��� DEC 04 2025

 REFERENCE TITLE: automatic voter registration

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HB 2037

 Introduced by 

 Representative 
 Travers

AN 
ACT

amending section 16-112, Arizona 
Revised Statutes; relating to qualification and registration of electors.

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

Section 1. Section 16-112, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-112. Driver license voter registration

A. Every person who is applying for a driver license 
or renewal, including a nonoperating identification license or 
renewal issued pursuant to title 28, chapter 8, or who is making changes to 
license information and who is otherwise qualified to register to vote, at the same time and place, shall be allowed to register to vote 
shall be registered to vote automatically on completing the 
application for the license or renewal or submitting the changes and by 
providing the information prescribed by section 16-152.� The method used 
to register voters shall require only the minimum information necessary to 
prevent duplicate registrations, to enable elections officials to determine 
voter eligibility and to administer voter registration and election laws. A 
registration form shall be included for a person who is applying for a driver 
license renewal by mail, including a nonoperating identification 
license, or who is making changes to license INFORMATION by mail.� On 
completing a form that contains at least the information prescribed by section 
16-121.01 and that may contain the information prescribed by section 16-152, and on receipt of that form by the 
county recorder from the department of transportation as prescribed by 
subsection D of this section and if the person does not decline 
to be registered to vote within twenty-one calendar days after issuance 
of notice of the process to decline, the applicant is presumed to be 
properly registered to vote.� That presumption may be rebutted as provided in 
section 16-121.01.

B. The director of the department of transportation 
and the secretary of state shall consult at least every two years regarding 
voter registration at driver license offices.� The director of the department 
of transportation and the secretary of state, after consultation with all 
county recorders, shall adopt rules to implement a system allowing driver 
license applicants, including nonoperating identification 
license applicants and persons who are making changes to license information, to 
register to vote at the same time and place as they apply for driver licenses, including nonoperating identification licenses, to implement the 
automatic voter registration of applicants. The system shall provide 
for the county recorder on receipt of the registration information from the 
department of transportation to notify the person of the process to decline to 
register to vote and that if the person does not decline to register to vote 
within twenty-one calendar days after the county recorder issues the 
notification, and the person otherwise is eligible to register to vote, the 
person is presumed to be properly registered to vote.� The rules shall:

1. Bring the license application and voter 
registration application forms into substantial conformity.

2. Allow the transfer of driver license 
applications, including nonoperating identification license 
applications and renewal, and 
change of address and other license information changes, 
and voter registration information from the department of transportation to the 
voter registration rolls.

3. Respect all rules and statutes of this state 
concerning the confidentiality of driver license application information.

4. Provide for the manual or electronic generation 
and transmittal of voter registrations and provide for electronic generation of 
changes in voter registration information, including address, in conformity 
with the confidentiality requirements of the national voter registration act of 
1993 (P.L. 103-31; 107 Stat. 77; 52 United States Code sections 20501 
through 20511).

C. The department of transportation shall provide to 
applicants a statement that provides each eligibility requirement for voting, 
including citizenship, an attestation that the applicant meets each 
requirement, for the signature of the applicant under penalty of perjury and, 
in print that is identical to that used in the attestation, the following:

1. A description of the penalties provided by law 
for the submission of a false voter registration application.

2. A statement that if an applicant declines to 
register to vote the fact that the applicant has declined to register will 
remain confidential and will be used only for voter registration purposes.

3. A statement that if an applicant does register to 
vote the office at which the applican