Bill Text: IL HB3296 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall create a Voter Safety Confidentiality Program to remove the address of voters who choose to participate in the program from any list of registered voters available to the public. Provides that a voter who is an elected official, first responder, police officer, election worker, or victim of domestic violence shall be eligible to participate in the program. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall adopt rules to implement and administer the program. Makes a conforming change.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3296 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3296-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3296 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/1A-70 new
10 ILCS 5/19-4 from Ch. 46, par. 19-4
Amends the Election Code. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall create a Voter Safety Confidentiality Program to remove the address of voters who choose to participate in the program from any list of registered voters available to the public. Provides that a voter who is an elected official, first responder, police officer, election worker, or victim of domestic violence shall be eligible to participate in the program. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall adopt rules to implement and administer the program. Makes a conforming change.
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A BILL FOR
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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 changing
Section 19-4 and by adding Section 1A-70 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/1A-70 new)
Sec. 1A-70. Voter Safety Confidentiality Program. The
State Board of Elections shall create a Voter Safety
Confidentiality Program to remove the address of voters who
choose to participate in the program from any list of
registered voters available to the public. A voter who is an
elected official, first responder, police officer, election
worker, or victim of domestic violence shall be eligible to
participate in the program. The State Board of Elections shall
adopt rules to implement and administer the program.
(10 ILCS 5/19-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-4)
Sec. 19-4. Mailing or delivery of ballots; time.
Immediately upon the receipt of such application either by
mail or electronic means, not more than 90 days nor less than 5
days prior to such election, or by personal delivery not more
than 90 days nor less than one day prior to such election, at
the office of such election authority, it shall be the duty of

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such election authority to examine the records to ascertain
whether or not such applicant is lawfully entitled to vote as
requested, including a verification of the applicant's
signature on file with the office of the election authority,
and if found so to be entitled to vote, to post within one
business day thereafter the name, street address, ward and
precinct number or township and district number, as the case
may be, of such applicant given on a list, the pages of which
are to be numbered consecutively to be kept by such election
authority for such purpose in a conspicuous, open and public
place accessible to the public at the entrance of the office of
such election authority, and in such a manner that such list
may be viewed without necessity of requesting permission
therefor. Within one day after posting the name and other
information of an applicant for a vote by mail ballot, the
election authority shall transmit by electronic means pursuant
to a process established by the State Board of Elections that
name and other posted information to the State Board of
Elections, which shall maintain those names and other
information in an electronic format on its website, arranged
by county and accessible to State and local political
committees. Within 2 business days after posting a name and
other information on the list within its office, but no sooner
than 40 days before an election, the election authority shall
mail, postage prepaid, or deliver in person in such office, or
deliver via electronic transmission pursuant to Section

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19-2.6, an official ballot or ballots if more than one are to
be voted at said election. Mail delivery of Temporarily Absent
Student ballot applications pursuant to Section 19-12.3 shall
be by nonforwardable mail. However, for the consolidated
election, vote by mail ballots for certain precincts may be
delivered to applicants not less than 25 days before the
election if so much time is required to have prepared and
printed the ballots containing the names of persons nominated
for offices at the consolidated primary. The election
authority shall enclose with each vote by mail ballot or
application written instructions on how voting assistance
shall be provided pursuant to Section 17-14 and a document,
written and approved by the State Board of Elections,
informing the vote by mail voter of the required postage for
returning the application and ballot, and enumerating the
circumstances under which a person is authorized to vote by
vote by mail ballot pursuant to this Article; such document
shall also include a statement informing the applicant that if
he or she falsifies or is solicited by another to falsify his
or her eligibility to cast a vote by mail ballot, such
applicant or other is subject to penalties pursuant to Section
29-10 and Section 29-20 of the Election Code. Each election
authority shall maintain a list of the name, street address,
ward and precinct, or township and district number, as the
case may be, of all applicants who have returned vote by mail
ballots to such authority, and the name of such vote by mail

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voter shall be added to such list within one business day from
receipt of such ballot. If the vote by mail ballot envelope
indicates that the voter was assisted in casting the ballot,
the name of the person so assisting shall be included on the
list. The list, the pages of which are to be numbered
consecutively, shall be kept by each election authority in a
conspicuous, open, and public place accessible to the public
at the entrance of the office of the election authority and in
a manner that the list may be viewed without necessity of
requesting permission for viewing.
Each election authority shall maintain a list for each
election of the voters to whom it has issued vote by mail
ballots. The list shall be maintained for each precinct within
the jurisdiction of the election authority. Prior to the
opening of the polls on election day, the election authority
shall deliver to the judges of election in each precinct the
list of registered voters in that precinct to whom vote by mail
ballots have been issued by mail.
Each election authority shall maintain a list for each
election of voters to whom it has issued temporarily absent
student ballots. The list shall be maintained for each
election jurisdiction within which such voters temporarily
abide. Immediately after the close of the period during which
application may be made by mail or electronic means for vote by
mail ballots, each election authority shall mail to each other
election authority within the State a certified list of all

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such voters temporarily abiding within the jurisdiction of the
other election authority.
In the event that the return address of an application for
ballot by a physically incapacitated elector is that of a
facility licensed or certified under the Nursing Home Care
Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013,
the ID/DD Community Care Act, or the MC/DD Act, within the
jurisdiction of the election authority, and the applicant is a
registered voter in the precinct in which such facility is
located, the ballots shall be prepared and transmitted to a
responsible judge of election no later than 9 a.m. on the
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday immediately preceding the
election as designated by the election authority under Section
19-12.2. Such judge shall deliver in person on the designated
day the ballot to the applicant on the premises of the facility
from which application was made. The election authority shall
by mail notify the applicant in such facility that the ballot
will be delivered by a judge of election on the designated day.
All applications for vote by mail ballots shall be
available at the office of the election authority for public
inspection upon request from the time of receipt thereof by
the election authority until 30 days after the election,
except during the time such applications are kept in the
office of the election authority pursuant to Section 19-7, and
except during the time such applications are in the possession
of the judges of election.

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Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the
contrary, pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 30 of the
Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence,
Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, or Stalking Act, neither
the name nor the address of a program participant under that
Act shall be included in any list of registered voters
available to the public, including the lists referenced in
this Section.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Section, the address
of a voter who chooses to participate in the Voter Safety
Confidentiality Program described in Section 1A-70 shall not
be included in any list of registered voters available to the
public, including the lists referenced in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 102-292, eff. 1-1-22; 102-819, eff. 5-13-22;
102-1126, eff. 2-10-23.)