FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 537

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DIXON, ICET, WALLACE, RICHARD, WASSON,

 SANDER (Co-sponsors), WOOD, RUESTMAN, STEVENSON, BROWN, BIVINS, SUTHERLAND, QUINN, CRAWFORD AND DUSENBERG.

         Read 1^st time February 20, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 115.133, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to qualification of voters.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 115.133, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.133, to read as follows:

            115.133. 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, any citizen of the United States who is a resident of the state of Missouri and seventeen years and six months of age or older shall be entitled to register and to vote in any election which is held on or after his eighteenth birthday.

            2. No person who is adjudged incapacitated shall be entitled to register or vote. No person shall be entitled to vote:

            (1) While confined under a sentence of imprisonment;

            (2) [While on probation or parole] After conviction of a felony, until [finally discharged from such probation or parole] such time as the governor grants a pardon, commutation of sentence or reprieve to such person; or

            (3) After conviction of a felony or misdemeanor connected with the right of suffrage.  

            3. Except as provided in federal law or federal elections and in section 115.277, no person shall be entitled to vote if the person has not registered tovote in the jurisdiction of his or her residence prior to the deadline to register to vote, unless the voter is an intrastate new resident or an interstate new resident, as defined in section 115.275.