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Senate Transportation Committee accepts amendment, tables proposal to add BMV voter-citizenship checks to House Bill 54
Summary
The Senate Transportation Committee advanced substitute House Bill 54 to the Rules and Reference Committee after accepting one amendment and tabling another that would have added voter-citizenship checks to Bureau of Motor Vehicles transactions.
The Senate Transportation Committee advanced substitute House Bill 54 to the Rules and Reference Committee after accepting one amendment and tabling another that would have required Bureau of Motor Vehicles clerks to check citizenship when offering voter registration.
Committee members voted to accept amendment AM1360277, which was incorporated into the bill, and later tabled an amendment offered by Senator Smith that would have removed the bill’s provisions regarding voter registration at BMV transactions. Senator Smith said the amendment would restore the executive’s version of the bill and argued the citizenship question should be handled in standalone legislation with a fuller hearing.
"This would remove the bill's provisions regarding voter registration involving…
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