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HCR2024 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: constitutional right to vote

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HCR 2024

 Introduced by 

 Representatives 
 Stahl Hamilton: Abeytia, Blattman, Cavero, Connolly, Contreras P, Crews, De 
 Los Santos, Garcia, Gutierrez, Liguori, Sandoval, Simacek, Travers, 
 Villegas;� Senator Gabald�n

A 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution of Arizona; amending article VII, section 2, Constitution of 
Arizona; relating to voting rights.

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Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of 
Arizona, the Senate concurring:

1. Article VII, section 2, Constitution of Arizona, 
is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on 
proclamation of the Governor:

START_STATUTE2. Qualifications 
of voters; fundamental right

Section 2. A. No Every person shall be 
is entitled to vote at any general election, 
or for any office that now is, or hereafter may be, elective by the people, or upon on any 
question which that may be submitted 
to a vote of the people, unless such if 
that person be is a citizen 
of the United States of the age of eighteen years or over, 
and shall have has resided in the this state for the period of time 
preceding such the election as 
prescribed by law, provided that qualifications for voters at a 
general election for the purpose of electing presidential electors shall be as 
prescribed by law. The word "citizen" shall include includes persons of the male 
and female sex.

B. The 
right to vote is a fundamental right. Any law or regulation that 
burdens a citizen's fundamental right to vote must be narrowly tailored to 
further a compelling governmental interest. This section provides 
robust protection for the right to vote beyond the guarantees of the equal 
protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the united states 
constitution.

B. C. The rights of citizens of the United States to 
vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged by the 
this state, or any political 
division or municipality thereof, of this 
state on account of sex, and the right to register, to vote and to hold 
office under any law now in effect, or which that may hereafter be enacted, is hereby extended to, and conferred upon on 
males and females alike.

C. No 
A person who is adjudicated an incapacitated person or a person who is convicted of treason shall not 
be qualified to vote at any election, nor shall any person 
convicted of treason or felony, be qualified to vote at any election unless 
restored to civil rights. END_STATUTE

2. The Secretary of State 
shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as 
provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona