Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Elections Committee on March 6, 2012. The 2012 session has ended.
2012 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2067
Voter assistance; require providers of assistance to complete declaration of voter assistance form.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-549, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT IF A PERSON WHO REQUIRES ASSISTANCE TO VOTE AT ANY ELECTION EXCEPT A FEDERAL ELECTION BY REASON OF BLINDNESS, DISABILITY OR INABILITY TO READ OR WRITE REQUESTS THE ASSISTANCE OF AN ELECTION OFFICIAL, HE MUST BE ASSISTED BY TWO ELECTION OFFICIALS; THE VOTERS MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER, BROTHER, CHILD, OR CERTAIN OTHER PERSONS OF THE VOTERS CHOICE WHO ARE REGISTERED VOTERS; TO REQUIRE PERSONS WHO ASSIST SUCH A VOTER TO BE REGISTERED VOTERS; TO PROVIDE THAT NO PERSON, OTHER THAN AN ELECTION OFFICIAL, MAY ASSIST MORE THAN 10 VOTERS IN ANY ELECTION; TO PROVIDE THAT NO CANDIDATE IN THE ELECTION, OR A FAMILY MEMBER OF SUCH CANDIDATE OR POLL WATCHER OF SUCH CANDIDATE, MAY ASSIST A VOTER; TO REQUIRE PERSONS WHO ASSIST A VOTER TO COMPLETE A DECLARATION TO PROVIDE VOTER ASSISTANCE FORM; TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-719, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE FORM OF THE CERTIFICATE OF PERSON PROVIDING VOTER ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 12 to March 6, 2012, 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 action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 12 to Mar 6 · stopped54 days
ElectionsJan 12 to Mar 6 · stopped54 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.