FIRST REGULAR SESSION
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BROWN (30).
Read 1st time March 31, 2005 and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.160, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to voter registration.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 115.160, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.160, to read as follows:
115.160. 1. All Missouri driver's license applicants shall receive a voter registration application form as a simultaneous part of the application for a driver's license, renewal of driver's license, change of address, duplicate request and a nondriver's license.
2. Each application to obtain a Missouri hunting, fishing, or trapping license issued by the department of conservation and made by an applicant who is a resident of the state and who is within six months of such applicant's eighteen birthday or older shall also serve as an application for voter registration unless the applicant declines to register to vote through specific declination or by failing to sign the voter registration application.
3. If a single application form is used, the voter registration application portion of any application described in [subsection 1] subsections 1 and 2 of this section may not require any information that duplicates information required in the driver's license or hunting, fishing, or trapping license or permit portion of the form, except a second signature or other information required by law.
[3.] 4. After conferring with the secretary of state as the chief state election official responsible for overseeing of the voter registration process, the director of revenue and the conservation commission shall adopt rules and regulations pertaining to the format of the voter registration application used by the department of revenue and the department of conservation.
[4.] 5. No information relating to the failure of an applicant for a driver's license or nondriver's license, or a hunting, fishing, or trapping license or permit to sign a voter registration application may be used for any purpose other than voter registration.
[5.] 6. Any voter registration application received pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be forwarded to the election authority located within that county or any city not within a county, or if there is more than one election authority within the county, then to the election authority located nearest to the location where the [driver's] license or permit application was received. The election authority receiving the application forms shall review the applications and forward any applications pertaining to a different election authority to that election authority.
[6.] 7. A completed voter registration application accepted in the driver's licensing process or the hunting, fishing, or trapping license or permit application process shall be transmitted to the election authority described in subsection 5 of this section not later than five business days after the form is completed by the applicant.