SB 1063, as amended, Block. Voter registration: juvenile detention facilities.
Under existing law, a person is entitled to register to vote if he or she is a United States citizen, a resident of California, not in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony, and will be at least 18 years of age at the time of the next election.
This bill would require state and local juvenile detention facilities to identify individuals housed in those facilities who are of age to register to vote, to assist those individualsbegin delete in determining their eligibility for registrationend deletebegin insert with the completion of the voter registration cardend insert, to provide voter registration cards to eligible voters, and to transmit the completed voter registration cards to the
county elections official.
By requiring local officials to perform additional duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 2105.7 is added to the Elections Code,
2to read:
(a) A state or local juvenile detention facility,
4including, but not limited to, a juvenile hall, juvenile ranch, juvenile
5camp, or a facility of the Department of Corrections and
6Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, shall do all of the
7following:
8(1) Identify each individual housed in the facility who is of age
9to register to vote.
10(2) Assist each individual identified pursuant to paragraph (1)
11begin delete in determining if he or she is entitled to register to vote, within the begin insert
with the completion of the voter
12meaning of Section 2101end delete
13registration card, unless the individual declines assistanceend insert.
14(3) Provide a voter registration card to each individual housed
15in the facility who isbegin delete entitledend deletebegin insert of ageend insert to register tobegin delete vote
but is not
16currently registered to vote.end delete
17(4) Accept any completed voter registration cards and transmit
18the cards to the county elections official pursuant to the
19requirements of subdivision (b).
20(b) A facility providing voter registration cards pursuant to
21subdivision (a) shall transmit a completed card to the county
22elections official as follows:
23(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), within 10 days of
24receipt from an individual housed in the facility.
25(2) Within five days of receipt from an individual housed in the
26facility, if
the voter registration card was received within five days
27before the last day for registration to vote in an election.
28(c) A state or local juvenile detention facility is encouraged to
29work with the Secretary of State to achieve compliance with the
30requirements set forth in the federal National Voter Registration
31Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973gg et seq.) when providing voter
32registration services pursuant to subdivision (a).
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
2this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
3local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
4pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
54 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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