PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 4337
No. 2812 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, YOUNGBLOOD, THOMAS, GOODMAN, ROBERTS, JAMES,
KIRKLAND AND HORSEY, JULY 29, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JULY 29, 2004
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, further providing for qualification of
3 electors.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
7 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
8 That section 1 of Article VII be amended to read:
9 § 1. Qualifications of electors.
10 Every citizen [21] 16 years of age, possessing the following
11 qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections
12 subject, however, to such laws requiring and regulating the
13 registration of electors as the General Assembly may enact.
14 1. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States
15 at least one month.
16 2. He or she shall have resided in the State 90 days
17 immediately preceding the election.
1 3. He or she shall have resided in the election district
2 where he or she shall offer to vote at least 60 days immediately
3 preceding the election, except that if qualified to vote in an
4 election district prior to removal of residence, he or she may,
5 if a resident of Pennsylvania, vote in the election district
6 from which he or she removed his or her residence within 60 days
7 preceding the election.
8 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
9 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
10 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
11 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
12 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
13 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
14 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
15 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
16 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
17 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
18 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
19 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
20 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
21 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
22 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
23 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
24 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
25 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
26 primary, general or municipal election which meets the
27 requirements of and is in conformance with section 1 of Article
28 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and which occurs at least
29 three months after the proposed constitutional amendment is
30 passed by the General Assembly.
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