Bill Text: IL HB2632 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Prohibits a person from knowingly maintaining more than one registration to vote. Provides that a violation involving multiple registrations within the State is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a violation involving multiple registrations in this State and another state is a Class 4 felony. Provides an affirmative defense to the violation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2632 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2632-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2632 Introduced , by Rep. Allen Skillicorn SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/29-21 new
Amends the Election Code. Prohibits a person from knowingly maintaining more than one registration to vote. Provides that a violation involving multiple registrations within the State is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a violation involving multiple registrations in this State and another state is a Class 4 felony. Provides an affirmative defense to the violation.
LRB101 07940 SMS 52995 b
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HB2632 LRB101 07940 SMS 52995 b
AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section
29-21 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/29-21 new)
Sec. 29-21. Registering more than once. No person may
knowingly maintain more than one registration to vote. A
violation of this Section involving multiple registrations
within the State is a Class A misdemeanor; a violation of this
Section involving multiple registrations, where one or more
registrations is within this State and one or more registration
is within another state, is a Class 4 felony. It is an
affirmative defense to a violation of this Section that the
individual has voted only once in any election for which the
individual has more than one registration to vote.