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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 7228

AN ACT CONCERNING VARIOUS REFORMS TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF ELECTIONS IN THIS STATE.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives on May 7, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) allow certain processing of absentee ballots prior to the day of an election, primary or referendum, (2) provide for notification of electors whose absentee ballots have been marked "Rejected" to advise of the opportunity to vote in person, (3) require that ballots be counted on the day of an election or primary beginning at eight o'clock a.m., (4) require individuals signing petitions to date their signatures thereon, (5) provide that petition forms for candidacies for municipal offices are available from the Secretary of the State instead of the registrar of voters, (6) limit the reasons after the close of the polls for which the canvass may be interrupted prior to the transmission of the preliminary results to the Secretary, (7) for discrepancy recanvasses, (A) require that all districts in a municipality be examined and not just the district in which the discrepancy was found, and (B) allow one party representative to communicate directly with the moderator, (8) require the Secretary to test the election management system, and give a demonstration thereon to local election officials, prior to each election and primary, (9) require the registrars of voters in each municipality to display a poster in each early voting location to assist electors in looking up their proper respective voting district to ensure they receive the correct early voting ballot, (10) require the Secretary to approve at least one electronic poll book for local election official use by January 1, 2027, (11) allow municipalities of a certain size to reduce their number of polling places for primaries, and (12) appropriate funds to the office of the Secretary of the State for early voting purposes.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Heather S. Somers

    Its course

    March 14 to May 7, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action15 actions on 9 days

    In the House of RepresentativesMar 14 to May 7 · stopped54 days

    Government Administration and Elections CommitteeMar 14 to Mar 2713 days

    Appropriations CommitteeApr 29 to May 56 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Mar 14 – May 5

    1. Mar 14Introduced and sent to Government Administration and Elections Committee
    2. Mar 17Heard in Government Administration and Elections Committee
    3. Mar 27Government Administration and Elections Committee recommended a substitute for it
    4. Apr 29Sent to Appropriations Committee
    5. May 5Appropriations Committee recommended it
    All 15 actions, as published
    1. Mar 14REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
    2. Mar 17PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
    3. Mar 27Joint Favorable SubstituteBoth houses
    4. Mar 27FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
    5. Apr 7REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
    6. Apr 14RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
    7. Apr 14FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDARHouse of Representatives
    8. Apr 14HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBERHouse of Representatives
    9. Apr 14FILE NO.Both houses
    10. Apr 29REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ONHouse of Representatives
    11. May 5Joint FavorableBoth houses
    12. May 6FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
    13. May 7RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
    14. May 7NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ONBoth houses
    15. May 7TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDARHouse of Representatives