ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

House: MOE DPA 8-0-0-1

HB 2166: statewide voter registration database; costs

Sponsor: Representative Dunn, LD 25

Caucus & COW

Overview

Requires the statewide voter registration system to be funded solely by the Secretary of State.

History

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires states to establish and maintain a single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration database that meets certain minimum requirements. Arizona's current statewide voter registration database, the Access Voter Information Database (AVID) was implemented in 2019. The Secretary of State and the counties have an agreement which generally requires the counties to pay for 50% of the annual AVID costs while the state pays the remaining 50%. Each county pays a percentage of the total county share based on registered voter populations (52 U.S.C. § 21083, A.R.S. §§ 16-168, 16-168.01).

Provisions

1.   ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteTransfers the responsibility to fund the development and administration of the statewide voter registration database from a cost sharing agreement between the counties and the Secretary of State to solely the Secretary of State. (Sec. 1)

Amendments

Committee on Municipal Oversight & Elections

1.   Adds a conditional enactment clause that specifies that this bill is only effective if HB 2590 is signed into law.

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