First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 13-0548.01 Kate Meyer x4348     HOUSE BILL 13-1050
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Saine, Holbert
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Grantham, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 Judiciary
 
 
 
 Appropriations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the duty of the secretary of state to
            electronically cancel the voter registration record
            of a person on the computerized statewide voter
            registration list who is not a United States citizen.
       
       
                           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 requires the secretary of state to coordinate the
       computerized statewide voter registration list with citizenship records
       maintained by federal and state agencies. Upon learning that a particular
       person registered to vote is not a United States citizen, the secretary of
       state, after conducting an administrative hearing, is directed to
       electronically cancel that person's voter registration record.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Legislative declaration. (1)  The general assembly
       hereby finds and declares that:
            (a)  The ability of eligible electors to vote is one of the most
       fundamentally important and cherished rights in our nation and our state;
            (b)  The general assembly is constitutionally obligated to pass laws
       to secure the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective
       franchise;
            (c)  The secretary of state has unambiguous existing authority to
       detect and electronically cancel the registrations of electors who are
       deceased or have been convicted of a felony, but there is no explicit
       analogous authority pertaining to removal of noncitizens from the voter
       registration record; and
            (d)  Therefore, consistent with the foregoing, the general assembly
       finds it necessary to:
            (I)  Direct the secretary of state to ensure that the names of persons
       who are not citizens of the United States and thus ineligible to vote do not
       appear in the voter registration record; and
            (II)  Clearly affirm the ability of the secretary of state to cancel
       ineligible voters from the voter registration record.
            SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 1-2-302, add (3.5)
       (c) as follows:
            1-2-302.  Maintenance of computerized statewide voter
       registration list - confidentiality. (3.5) (c)  The secretary of state
       shall coordinate the computerized statewide voter registration
       list with records maintained by federal and state agencies,
       including the United States department of homeland security,
       that pertain to or contain citizenship status data. Upon
       obtaining information that a particular person registered to
       vote is not a United States citizen, the secretary of state shall,
       after a hearing conducted in accordance with section 24-4-105,
       C.R.S., electronically cancel that person's voter registration
       record.
            SECTION 3.  No appropriation. The general assembly has
       determined that this act can be implemented within existing
       appropriations, and therefore no separate appropriation of state moneys
       is necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.
            SECTION 4.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.