Second Regular Session Sixty-eighth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO INTRODUCED LLS NO. 12-0812.01 Kate Meyer x4348 HOUSE BILL 12-1298 HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Singer, 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 information 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.) 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 is allowed to preregister using any means available to persons of voting age. 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. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 1-2-101, add (2) as follows: 1-2-101. Qualifications for registration - preregistration. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, upon satisfactory proof of age, 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 and update his or her preregistered information by any means authorized in this article for persons eighteen years of age or older. Upon reaching eighteen years of age, the person is automatically registered. SECTION 2. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 1-2-202.5, add (1.5) as follows: 1-2-202.5. On-line voter registration - on-line changes in elector information. (1.5) A person may preregister pursuant to section 1-2-101 (2) on the official web site referenced in, and in accordance with the signature requirements of, subsection (1) of this section, and any person that has preregistered may change his or her information on the registration record by completing an electronic form on the official web site referenced in subsection (1) of this section. SECTION 3. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 1-2-205, amend (2) as follows: 1-2-205. Self-affirmation made by elector. (2) Each elector making application for registration shall make the following self-affirmation: "I, ...., do solemnly affirm that I am a citizen of the United States and that on the date of the next election I shall have attained the age of eighteen years and shall have resided in the state of Colorado at least thirty days and in precinct no. .... at least thirty days before the election. I further affirm that the present address I listed herein is my sole legal place of residence and that I claim no other place as my legal residence." SECTION 4. Act subject to petition - effective date. This act takes 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 8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); 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 will not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.