l9n/ Mississippi

2020 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2086

Affidavit ballots; reduce length of time within which certain persons must present proper voter ID or execute religious exemption.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Elections Committee on March 3, 2020. The 2020 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 23-15-563 AND 23-15-573, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REDUCE THE LENGTH OF TIME AFTER THE ELECTION WITHIN WHICH A VOTER WHO IS UNABLE TO PRESENT ACCEPTABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION MUST RETURN TO THE CIRCUIT OR MUNICIPAL CLERK'S OFFICE TO PRESENT PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION OR EXECUTE A RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION AFFIDAVIT; TO PROVIDE THAT SUCH VOTERS MUST RETURN TO THE CIRCUIT OR MUNICIPAL CLERK'S OFFICE WITHIN THREE RATHER THAN FIVE DAYS TO ENSURE THAT HIS OR HER BALLOT IS COUNTED; 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

Its course

January 17 to March 3, 2020, 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 17 to Mar 3 · stopped46 days

ElectionsJan 17 to Mar 3 · stopped46 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.

In the Senate Jan 17 – Mar 3

  1. Referred to the Senate committee on Elections
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published