FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 782
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE TROUPE.
Read 1st time February 14, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.289, RSMo 2000, relating to public availability of absentee ballot lists, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 115.289, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.289, to read as follows:
115.289. 1. Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, as applications for absentee ballots are received, the election authority shall list the name, voting address and mailing address, if different, of each applicant. Any person [authorized under subsection 2 of this section] may copy the list, and the election authority may make copies of the list available to such persons for a reasonable fee determined by the election authority.
2. [Except as provided in subsection 4 of this section,] All lists of applications for absentee ballots shall be [kept confidential to the extent that such lists of applications shall not be posted or displayed in any area open] available to the general public[, nor shall such lists of applications be shown to any person who is not entitled to see such lists of applications, either pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or any other provisions of law. Persons entitled to see such lists shall include a candidate or a duly authorized representative of a campaign committee as defined in section 130.011, RSMo, or any person with written authorization from a candidate, or any person that has applied for an absentee ballot].
3. In each city not within a county, in each county of the first classification having a population of more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants, in each county of the first classification containing the major portion of a city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants, and in that portion of each city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county, situated in the county containing the major portion of the city, as applications for absentee ballots are received, the election authority shall list the name, voting address and mailing address, if different, of each applicant. [Prior to 8:00 a.m. on the Friday before an election all absentee ballot applications, lists of absentee ballot applications, or any information contained on the absentee ballot applications shall be kept confidential. Use of the applications, lists or information contained thereon by the election authority prior to 8:00 a.m. on the Friday before an election for purposes other than processing absentee ballots shall be deemed a class one election offense.] After 8:00 a.m. on the Friday before an election any person [authorized under subsection 4 of this section] may copy the list, and the election authority may make copies of the list available to such persons for a reasonable fee determined by the election authority.
4. In each city not within a county, in each county of the first classification having a population of more than nine hundred
thousand inhabitants, in each county of the first classification containing the major portion of a city which has over three
hundred thousand inhabitants, and in that portion of each city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants and
located in more than one county, situated in the county containing the major portion of the city, after 8:00 a.m. on the
Friday before an election, all lists of applications for absentee ballots shall be [kept confidential to the extent that such lists
of applications shall not be posted or displayed in any area open] available to the general public[, nor shall such lists of
applications be shown to any person who is not entitled to see such lists of applications, either pursuant to the provisions of
this chapter or any other provisions of law. Persons entitled to see such lists shall include a candidate or a duly authorized
representative of a campaign committee as defined in section 130.011, RSMo, or any person with written authorization
from a candidate, or any person that has applied for an absentee ballot].
Missouri House of Representatives