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Elections committee approves bill to tighten voter-roll matching and reporting

Committee on Elections · February 10, 2026
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Summary

House Bill 2437, amended to add quarterly DMV reporting and conditional use of the SAVE database, passed the committee after debate over fiscal effects; Legislative Research said the state would spend $11,000 in FY27 to develop matching processes and counties warned of possible local costs.

The Committee on Elections passed House Bill 2437 as amended, a measure that expands mechanisms for removing ineligible names from voter registration lists and directs the Secretary of State to use outside data sources to verify voter eligibility.

The reviser described the bill as amending the voter-registration statute (transcript citation: '20 five-2316c') to add removal triggers when a registered voter appears on a Social Security Administration list of deceased individuals verified by other reliable means, or when a voter declares…

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