Connecticut HJ 32: RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE OF SIXTEEN TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION AS ELECTORS AND TO BE SO ADMITTED UPON ATTAINING THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.

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General Assembly House Joint
Resolution No. 32
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 1931

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS

Introduced by:
(GAE)

RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE
CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ATTAINED
THE AGE OF SIXTEEN TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION AS ELECTORS
AND TO BE SO ADMITTED UPON ATTAINING THE AGE OF
EIGHTEEN.
Resolved by this Assembly:

That the following be proposed as an amendment to the Constitution 1
of the State, which, when approved and adopted in the manner 2
provided by the Constitution, shall, to all intents and purposes, become 3
a part thereof: 4
Section 1. Article thirty-first of the amendments to the Constitution is 5
amended as follows: 6
Any citizen who [will have] has attained the age of [eighteen] sixteen 7
years [on or before the day of a regular election] may apply for 8
admission as an elector at such times and in such manner as may be 9
prescribed by law, and, if qualified, shall become an elector on the day 10
of [his or her] such citizen's eighteenth birthday. Any citizen who has 11

House Joint Resolution No. 32

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not yet attained the age of eighteen years but who will have attained the 12
age of eighteen years on or before the day of a regular election, who is 13
otherwise qualified to be an elector and who has applied for admission 14
as an elector in such manner as may be prescribed by law, may vote in 15
any primary election, in such manner as may be prescribed by law, held 16
for such regular election. 17
RESOLVED: That the foregoing proposed amendment to the 18
Constitution be continued to the next session of the General Assembly 19
elected at the general election to be held on November 3, 2026, and 20
published with the laws passed at the present session, or be presented 21
to the electors at the general election to be held on November 3, 2026, 22
whichever the case may be, according to article sixth of the amendments 23
to the Constitution. The designation of said proposed amendment to be 24
used on the ballots at such election shall be "Shall the Constitution of the 25
State be amended to allow any citizen who has attained the age of 26
sixteen years to preregister to be an elector, for the purpose of becoming 27
an elector on such citizen's eighteenth birthday?"28

GAE Joint Favorable