First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0513.01 Troy Bratton         HOUSE BILL 11-1096
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Gardner D.,  Duran, Fields, Levy, Todd, Williams A.
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the ability of a person who has reached sixteen
            years of age but who will not be eighteen years of age
            by the date of the next election to preregister to vote,
            and, in connection therewith, allowing a preregistered
            person to change his or her place of residence on the
            secretary of state's official web site.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill allows a person who has reached 16 years of age but who
       will not reach 18 years of age by the date of the next election to
       preregister with the county clerk and recorder or on-line via the secretary
       of state's official web site.  The registration will automatically become
       active when the preregistered person reaches 18 years of age.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  1-2-101, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY
       THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read:
            1-2-101.  Qualifications for registration - participation. 
       (2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, every person
       who is otherwise qualified to register and is sixteen years of age
       or older but will not have reached eighteen years of age by the
       date of the next election may preregister upon satisfactory
       proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon
       reaching eighteen years of age.
            SECTION 2.  1-2-202.5, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read:
            1-2-202.5.  On-line voter registration - on-line changes in
       elector information.  (1.5)  A person may preregister as authorized
       by section 1-2-101 (2), and any person that has preregistered may
       change his or her residence on the registration record by
       completing an electronic form on the official web site
       referenced in subsection (1) of this section.
            SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
       shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.