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Committee advances bill to share DMV noncitizen data with Secretary of State and county election officers
Summary
The Committee on Elections approved House Bill 2020, amended to require quarterly DMV reports of certain noncitizen identifiers and a process for the Secretary of State to investigate matches before directing counties to remove ineligible registrants.
The Committee on Elections voted to advance House Bill 2020 after adopting amendments and procedural language to clarify how Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) data on noncitizen applicants will be used to identify potentially ineligible registrants.
Representative Sutton moved the bill favorably; Representative Penn seconded. Committee members and witnesses negotiated changes to the bill text in a balloon amendment distributed by the reviser. The amendment clarified that the short description of the bill should match its text (quarterly rather than monthly reporting), required the DMV to include alien…
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