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Dozens of bills that propose significant and often restrictive changes to Arizona’s election system — with many based on false conspiracy theories — have survived the first stage of the journey to become law.

Legislators filed about 140 bills that deal with some aspect of elections, out of nearly 1,700 bills total. The tally initially included slightly more than 100 Republican-sponsored bills that address issues of security in elections and who is allowed to vote.

As the session goes on, the number of those Republican bills that still have a chance to become law dwindles.

Legislative committees had to hear bills by a Feb. 18 deadline; about 40 failed to reach that first step. The roughly 60 that passed committee include some of the more restrictive proposals, like bans on drive-thru ballot casting and most voting centers that allow people from any precinct, and prohibiting early voting for most Arizonans.

The House and Senate separately have approved 18 bills total as of Feb. 25; no bills have yet cleared both chambers. Two bills failed on votes of either the full House or Senate, though one of those is up for reconsideration.

Several of the most extreme bills failed to get a hearing or even get assigned to a committee. Those include eight of nine election-related bills by Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, a candidate for the secretary of state’s office who proposed a ban on electronic registration information centers and wanted a resolution declaring the 2020 presidential election in Arizona invalid.

The most prolific sponsor of elections bills this year is Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, the chair of the Senate Government Committee that hears such proposals. She sponsored 24 of them. All but two of hers are still actively being considered.

The bills that weren’t heard by the deadline likely are in the dustbin, but lawmakers could revive them using what are known as “strike-everything amendments” to existing bills.

As of Feb. 25, election-related bills had replaced eight other bills as strike-everything amendments. These pieces of legislation also are ones to watch, and include proposals to allow the state attorney general to enforce election laws even in federal races and to ask voters to tighten early-voter identification rules.

More bills likely will get weeded out during the legislative process. But voters who think the election was stolen — and critics who fear democracy may be in peril — are waiting to see how Arizona law might change this year.

The next important date in the process is March 25. That’s another deadline for a committee vote, but House bills will go before Senate committees and vice-versa.

The Arizona Republic will continue to update the following list throughout the legislative session to help the public keep track of the many proposals:

Election-related bills in the AZ Senate

Bills that have passed the Senate:

Senate Bill 1008 

• Would widen the margin to trigger a recount between candidates or on ballot measures to 0.5% or less of the number of votes cast
• Passed the Senate 17-12-1 and has moved to the House for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale

Senate Bill 1012

• Would require state and county reports of federal-only voters to ensure federal-voter registration list complies with federal law.
• Passed the Senate 16-13 and has moved to the House for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa

Senate Bill 1013 

• The secretary of state would have to request that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission include Arizona’s requirement to provide proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms.
• Passed the Senate 16-13 and has moved to the House for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Concurrent Resolution 1032

• Would declare a reaffirmation that the state Legislature’s authority over the appointment of presidential electors is plenary, meaning absolute.
• Passed the Senate 16-12-2 and moved to the House for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Bills still under consideration in the Senate:

Senate Bill 1054

• Would require a review of election equipment and software used in the most recent general election for counties with a population of 500,000 or more every two years.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-2-1
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1055

• Contractors providing election-related equipment or services would be liable for liquidated damages of amount paid in contract and guilty of Class 2 misdemeanor if they fail to perform their obligations.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1056

• Misplaced ballots would be prohibited from getting counted and any person who misplaces a ballot is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. If an early or provisional ballot is misplaced and not counted, the voter can file for damages for loss of right to vote.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1058

• Would outlaw drive-up voting, or using ballot drop boxes outside of a polling place, voting center, county recorder’s office or election department.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1119

• Digital images of all ballots would become public records.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City

Senate Bill 1120

• Would require paper ballots to contain 19 specified ballot fraud countermeasures including watermarking, secure holographic foil, security inks, invisible ultraviolet microtext, a QR code, paper receipt for the voter and International Standardization Organization certification.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3; passed Appropriations Committee 6-4 with amendment
• Prime sponsor: Borrelli

Senate Bill 1133

• Would prohibit municipalities and school districts from conducting a mail ballot election.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1259

• Would increase the number of precincts required to conduct a hand count following an election, and allows the secretary of state, attorney general, legislative counsel or any person to request a recount.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor:  Sen. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler

Senate Bill 1260

• A county recorder could cancel a voter’s registration if they are registered in two counties. A person who receives a previous resident’s ballot in the mail can mail it back to the county recorder.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Mesnard

Senate Bill 1285

• Would move responsibility of oversight and approval of official election instructions and procedures manual to attorney general and legislative council instead of governor and attorney general.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Ugenti-Rita

Senate Bill 1338

• Would ban voting centers and require that only paper ballots be used, except where the law already requires electronic tabulation for people who are blind or visually impaired.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1343

• Would require early, provisional and conditional provisional ballot be separated and tabulated by precinct and category of ballot.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1357

• Machines or devices without accreditation would be deemed unapproved for any federal, state or county election. Votes conducted with a machine or device not accredited at time of certification would be nullified.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1358

• For counties using voting centers, the ballots would have to get separated by precinct before the random selection of precincts for a hand count.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1359

• Would require any election employee, contractor or volunteer to have a unique password not disclosed to any other person, and would require password updates every two weeks. Violations would be a Class 2 misdemeanor.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1360

• Would give election observers open access to all stages of the election process — from ballot design through tabulation — and would allow documented observations, questions to election officers and close proximity. Election observers would only be ejected for significant concerns approved by the inspector and marshal.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1362

• Would require those dropping off early ballots to present identification. Without ID, the voter could either deposit the early ballot in a dropbox or surrender the ballot and vote a provisional ballot.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3; passed Appropriations Committee 7-2-1
• Prime sponsor: Mesnard

Senate Bill 1380

• Would require county recorders to use change of address information supplied by the postal service to identify registered voters with address changes on a monthly basis instead of once every election cycle. If a notice of change sent by recorder is not returned, the registrant would have to provide confirmation of their address to vote.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1404

• Would repeal the active early voting lists. Those permitted to vote early would be people who are physically unable to go to polls, who are 65 years or older, who reside more than 15 miles from a polling site, who can’t go to polls on Election Day for religious reasons, who have a visual impairment, or who are an absent uniformed service voter or spouse or household member of a uniformed voter.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Gowan

Senate Bill 1411

• Would establish an online early ballot tracking system in counties with a population of over 100,000 people that use early ballots.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 5-2, passed Appropriations Committee 10-0
• Prime sponsor: Mesnard

Senate Bill 1457

• Would require the secretary of state to ensure vote recording and tabulating machines/devices meet a list of specific requirements including having appropriate security levels, no internet connectivity, and the ability to track users based on unique credentials.
• Passed Senate Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Borrelli

Senate Bill 1460

• Would make various changes in election law to establish new options for candidate nomination petitions following redistricting, adjust precinct boundaries based on redistricting, allow early voters with surrendered early ballot to vote on standard ballot and modify deadlines, among other adjustments.
• Passed Government Committee 7-0
• Prime sponsor: T.J. Shope, R-Coolidge

Senate Bill 1465

• Would require the secretary of state to revoke certification for vote recording, aggregation and tabulating machines/devices used in elections unless it complies with a specific list of requirements — including being manufactured in the U.S., meeting security standards, and having no internet connectivity.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1475

• Would criminalize falsely claiming U.S. citizenship while registering to vote, or doing so on behalf of another person for a federal-only ballot if you know that person is not a U.S. citizen. Punishment for both would be a Class 2 felony.
• Passed Government Committee 4-1-2
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1477

• World require transmission of record of every felony conviction to secretary of state to cancel the names of convicted felons from the statewide voter registration database and to notify the appropriate county recorder.
•  Passed Government Committee 4-1-2
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1478 

• Would prohibit county boards of supervisors from requiring a specific marking pen for use on paper ballots and prohibit the providing of a pen that leaks onto the other side or damages a ballot.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1570

• Would prohibit internet connectivity on tabulating equipment, require accessible ports be locked with tamper-proof seal and logged in the chain of custody document when accessed.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1571

• Would require video and audio surveillance of each ballot drop box in Arizona and require early voters to drop off ballots instead of mailing them. Drop boxes would have to log the receipt of ballots and generate a paper receipt.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1572

• Would require county recorders to publish a list of all voters who are eligible to vote in an election, including those on inactive voter list, with personal information redacted, and to publish and post all ballot images. Would require early and provisional ballots to have an identification number so that ballot images would be linked to a physical ballot.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1573

• Would change number of precincts to do randomly selected hand counts from 2% percent or 2 precincts to 5% percent of precincts or 5 precincts. Would also prohibit election completion without a hand count.
• Passed Government Committee 4-1-2
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1574

• Would require county recorders or other officers in charge of elections to maintain a record of all voting irregularities occurring during early voting, emergency voting and Election Day voting. The record would have to be provided to the Legislature.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1576

• Would prohibit any tabulating equipment capable of registering fractional votes or that is susceptible to manipulation by an algorithm from being used in Arizona elections. It would also require county recorders to post operating manuals online, and prohibit counties from entering into contracts with tabulating providers if their manual does not describe all the machine’s capabilities.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1577

• Would require any ballots duplicated and adjudicated to get separated by type of defect or damage and type of ballot. The number of defective or damaged ballots, ballot type and category of defect would have to get posted on the county’s website.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1609

• Would require courts to order a new election within 90 days when they determine that declared election winners didn’t receive the most votes. Those found responsible for misconduct or fraud in an election would be liable for the costs of the second election and guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1629

• A comprehensive bill that would: require training for signature certification; create requirements for drop boxes; mandate the online publishing of a database of ballot images for federal elections; and require the auditor general to create a team to audit county recorders’ offices and election departments.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Borrelli

Senate Bill 1642

• By the 2022 primary election, election officials would have to use a “dedicated special purpose election management system gateway computer (EMS gateway computer)” for uploading or downloading data from internet-connected systems. No other computer could be used for those purposes, and a list of security protocols that apply would be developed.
• Passed Government Committee 4-3
• Prime sponsor: Sen. Karen Fann, R-Prescott

Senate Concurrent Resolution 1005

• Would ask voters on in a November 2022 ballot measure whether to require federal-only voters to provide proof of citizenship.
• Passed Government Committee 4-2-1
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Election-related bills in the AZ House

Bills that have passed the House:

House Bill 2170

• Would require any third party providing electronic or digital link to an official election-related document to include “not from a government” agency in boldfaced, clearly legible print on the outside of the envelope.
• Passed the House 32-27-1 and moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills

House Bill 2237

• Government entities or people working on behalf of them would be prohibited from registering anyone to vote, and enabling that person to vote, on an election day. Violators would be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2243

• Would require a voter registration form to state that if voters move to another state, their voter registration will be canceled.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2289

• Would require the county chairman of each political party to designate a party agent or representative who may act as challengers for the party, and require one challenger for each political party at each voting place who must remain in a polling place until the completion of tabulation and delivery of the results.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2378

• The secretary of state would have to consult county recorders or other chief election officers when election-related civil actions are filed.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2379 

• Would require that the state’s official election instructions and procedures manual is transparent to the maximum extent allowed by law.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2494

• Would require the Secretary of State and each county recorder to post a list of each event providing voter registration services on their websites.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2602

• Would allow emergency voting centers only in a “genuine emergency such as war, civil unrest or natural disaster that makes it likely that large numbers of voters will be substantially impaired in their ability to vote on Election Day as compared to other elections.”
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2703

• Would set up a system for the state auditor general to create an audit team that would perform election integrity audits of county recorder offices and election departments. Findings would be reported to the governor, Legislature and Secretary of State’s Office.
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and moved to the Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2783

• Would raise penalties for failing to adhere to the secretary of state’s election instructions and procedures manual to a Class 1 misdemeanor, from a Class 2. Makes violations of Title 16, (election law), a potential Class 6 felony except where other penalties are already listed for specific Title 16 offenses.
• Passed the House 32-27-1 and moved to Senate for consideration
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

Bills still under consideration in House:

House Bill 2238

• Would prohibit the use of unmonitored drop boxes to receive early ballots.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2239

• Would prohibit county boards of supervisors and officers in charge of elections from using electronic vote adjudication.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2241

• Would require identification for voting and identification plus written attestation for anyone who delivers an early ballot to a voting center for themselves or someone else. Violators would be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2469

• Would allow a voter who has completed an early ballot and affidavit to remove the completed ballot and put it into a ballot machine, then discard the envelope. 
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 9-2-1-1
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Frank Carroll, R-Sun City West

House Bill 2492

• Would prohibit election officials from sending early ballots to people who can’t prove their citizenship and are voting in federal-only elections, and make proof of citizenship a requirement for registering to vote for state and local elections. Officials who approve registrations not meeting the criteria would be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2493

• Would appropriate $12 million to the Election Integrity Fund to pay county recorders for election security, cybersecurity measures and other improvements.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 8-4-0-1
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2617

• Would require county recorders to cancel the voter registrations of people found not to be a U.S. citizen or who have a driver’s license issued in another state.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Joseph Chaplik, R-Scottsdale

House Bill 2710

• Would make changes relating to election observers including allowing political parties to designate representatives for polling places, voting centers or places where electronic ballot processing occurs.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Kavanagh

House Bill 2780

• Would require the state to publish the complete list of registered voters 10 days before an election, with personal identifying information redacted. Officials would later publish the list of everyone who voted and the method of voting, and images of ballots with unique identifying numbers to double-check early and provisional votes.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Kavanagh

House Concurrent Resolution 2025

• Would put a question on the November 2022 to take away the option that allows voters to use of alternative ID like a utility bill or vehicle insurance card in lieu of government-issued ID, and expands the list of acceptable ID to include a U.S. passport, or ID cards from schools and employers.
• Passed Government & Elections Committee 7-6
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

Bills that have failed in the House

House Bill 2377

• Allows a person to take photos and videos of themselves and/or their ballot and any election worker within the 75-foot limit of polls.
• Failed in Government & Elections Committee 6-7
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2236

• Would prohibit an agency, department or division of Arizona or someone acting on the agency’s behalf to register a person to vote unless the person affirmatively requests to register to vote.
• Failed in the House 29-30-1, but approved for reconsideration
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek

House Bill 2786

• Only a political party, county recorder, or election official could distribute early ballot request forms to voters. Additionally, county recorders would be banned from using the signature on an early ballot request or to amend registration information as an official signature unless the request was made by a government elections office.
• Failed in the House 27-32-1
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

New strike-everything bills:

Strike-everything amendments completely replace the text of an existing bill with the text of a new bill. The new “striker” bill must still be heard in a committee, but are useful because they can be submitted after the deadlines for committee hearings. These are the latest Republican, election-related strike-everything bills:

Senate Bill 1137

• Would prohibit any state or local governmental entity from agreeing to or signing a settlement agreement or consent decree in lawsuits challenging state election procedures.
• Prime sponsor: Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert
• Passed Judiciary Committee 5-2-1

Senate Bill 1329

• Would require county recorders to post the number of early ballots received on Election Day on their websites, and to enter early ballots in a tracking system, if such a system is created.
• Prime sponsor: Paul Boyer, R-Glendale
• Passed Education Committee 8-0

Senate Bill 1458

• Would prohibit the tallying of early ballots from prior to Election Day.
• Prime sponsor: Borrelli
• Passed Appropriations Committee 6-4

Senate Bill 1475

• Would establish specific powers and duties for the attorney general’s enforcement of election laws, and would allow the attorney general  to enforce elections for local, state and federal offices.
• Prime sponsor: Townsend
• Passed Government Committee 4-1-2

Senate Bill 1476

• Would require all ballots to have unique, consecutive numbers and to account for all ballots in a chain-of-custody log.
• Prime sponsor: Townsend
• Passed Government Committee 4-2-1

Senate Concurrent Resolution 1012

• Subject to voter approval, it would tighten voter identification for early voters when they return early ballots, requiring that they provide a date of birth and prescribed voter ID. The bill would ban acceptance of two forms of ID when neither include a photograph in order to receive a ballot. And it would ban the state from charging for state IDs when people attest that they got the state ID to comply with voting rules.
• Prime sponsor: Mesnard
• Passed the Senate 16-13-1 and moved to the House for consideration

House Bill 2621

• Similar to Senate Bill 1137, it would prohibit any state or local governmental entity from agreeing to or signing a settlement agreement or consent decree in lawsuits challenging state election procedures.
• Prime sponsor: Jacqueline Parker, R-Mesa
• Passed House Judiciary Committee 6-4

House Bill 2703

• Would bar the secretary of state from “removing, closing down or otherwise limiting access to the secure internet portal and related systems for online signature collection.”
• Prime sponsor: Bolick
• Passed the House 31-28-1 and has moved to the Senate for consideration

House Bill 2726

• Similar to Rogers’ Senate Bill 1028, which was held in committee, it would require three ballot fraud countermeasures from a list of 10 options including watermarking, security inks and unique barcodes.
• Prime Sponsor: Teresa Martinez, R-Casa Grande
• Passed Appropriations Committee 7-5

House Concurrent Resolution 2025

• Similar to Senate Concurrent Resolution 1012. Subject to voter approval, it would:  tighten voter identification for early voters when they return early ballots, requiring that a voter provide a date of birth and prescribed voter ID; ban acceptance of two forms of ID when neither include a photograph in order to receive a ballot; and ban the state from charging for state IDs when people attest that they got the state ID in order to comply with voting rules. Also labels the bill as the Arizonans for Voter ID Act.
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore
• Passed Government and Elections Committee 7-6

Bills not heard by deadline

The following bills weren’t heard in a committee by the Feb. 18 deadline and are likely done for the year — unless they’re revived in a strike-everything amendment.

SENATE

Senate Bill 1027

• The bill would establish the Bureau of Elections to investigate allegations of fraud in any state, county or local government election.
• Assigned to Senate Government and Appropriations committees
• Prime sponsor: Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff

Senate Bill 1028

• Would require three ballot fraud countermeasures from a list of 10 options including watermarking, security inks and unique barcodes.
• Held in Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1169

• Would prohibit campaign committees from sending campaign emails to email address ending in .edu or .gov and impose penalties of $100 per email sent.
• Held in Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista

Senate Bill 1335

• Would ban early voting except in cases of illness, hospitalization “or other confinement.” Absentee ballots would be restricted to military personnel and overseas voters. Also would ban early voting and voting centers.
• Assigned to Senate Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1348

• All ballots in state, county and municipal elections would get counted by hand. Also, the bill would prohibit county boards of supervisors or other election offices from allowing the use of electronic or other tabulating equipment.
• Assigned to Senate Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1351

• Would require early voters to renew their request for an early ballot every two years or they would face removal from the early voting list.
• Assigned to Senate Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Bill 1603

• Would allow the House, Senate or auditor general to request comprehensive audits of county elections for state and federal offices.
• Assigned to Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1608

• Would require counties with populations above 500,000 (Maricopa and Pima) to count ballots at a polling place and also a central counting center. A hand count would be required if the tallies don’t match. Each stage would require verification from two people of different political parties.
• Assigned to Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Townsend

Senate Bill 1612

• Would ban several companies’ voting equipment and software from use in state elections, including Dominion Voting Systems, and would bans the use of any election software or hardware, and every line of code in the software, unless it was made in the United States.
• Assigned to Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rogers

Senate Concurrent Resolution 1046

• Would put a question on the November 2022 to take away the option that allows voters to alternative ID like a utility bill or vehicle insurance card in lieu of government-issued ID, and expands the list of acceptable ID to include a U.S. passport, or ID cards from schools and employers.
• Assigned to Government Committee
• Prime sponsor: Borrelli

HOUSE

House Bill 2023

• Would require searchable digital images of ballots to be made a public record. 
• No committee assignment
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley

House Bill 2041

• Would require paper ballots to contain 19 specified ballot fraud countermeasures including watermarking, secure holographic foil, security inks, invisible ultraviolet microtext, a QR code, paper receipt for the voter and International Standardization Organization certification.
• Held in Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu City
• Identical to Senate Bill 1120

House Bill 2059

• Would prohibit the use of unmonitored drop boxes for voted early ballots, require notices that electioneering is prohibited within 75 feet of dropbox and increase criminal classification of certain unlawful acts by voters from a misdemeanor to a felony.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Walt Blackman, R-Snowflake

House Bill 2079

• Would prohibit county boards of supervisors from establishing an election precinct containing more than 1,500 registered voters, and require all ballots at voting centers or emergency voting centers to be segregated by election precinct before tabulation.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

House Bill 2080

• Would require all ballots to be counted by hand, and only allow machines or electronic tabulations for verification of hand counts.
• No committee assignment
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

House Bill 2240

• Would prohibit voting centers and require voters to only vote in polling places in election districts.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2242

• Would require county recorders and the secretary of state to verify the name, address, date of birth and drivers license number of a registering voter.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2244

• Would require the state auditor general to conduct various election audits after the general election and appropriate $800,000 this year for the audits.
• Assigned to Government & Elections and Appropriations committees
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

House Bill 2245

• Would allow use of on-site early voting locations, centers, and emergency voting centers only from Saturday before Election Day through the Monday before Election Day for primary or general election.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

House Bill 2270

• Would prohibit election officers or employees from being a chairperson, treasurer or other member of a political action committee.
• No committee assignment
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Shawnna Bolick, R-Phoenix

House Bill 2283

• Would require election officers to prioritize public schools and fire stations as polling places, and require that school principals are no longer authorized to deny a request to provide space for use as a polling place.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rep. John Fillmore, R-Apache Junction

House Bill 2287

• Would prohibit the combining of adjacent voting precincts.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2288

• Would prohibit county boards of supervisors from authorizing the use of emergency voting centers and ban the boards from providing emergency voting for a person who experienced an emergency immediately preceding an election.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2296

• Would eliminate the option for voters to present two different items containing the name and address of voter — including bills, vehicle registration, insurance cards, tribal IDs, etc. — in place of state-authorized ID.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2357

• Would prohibit a person who has changed their political party affiliation or has no party preference since the last election from serving as an election board clerk.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Biasiucci

House Bill 2376

• Would establish a 13-member Election Integrity Commission that would conduct a review of election laws and procedures statewide every two years starting in 2023.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2380

• Would raise the criminal classification for knowingly collecting voted or unvoted early ballots from another person from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 felony, allow anyone to submit complaint to the Election Integrity Unit and authorize the state attorney general to investigate election complaints.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Bolick

House Bill 2385

• Would order the auditor general to review the processes and legal requirements of voter registration databases for the state and counties and for early-voting processes. The reviews would be done in even-numbered years. An appropriate of $500,000 would be set aside for the first year.
• Assigned to House Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Steve Kaiser, R-Phoenix

House Bill 2476

• Would require that Arizona’s presidential electors be chosen from each congressional district and allows the state Legislature to choose two of the electors.
• No committee assignment
• Prime sponsor: Carroll

House Bill 2491

• Would require the county recorder and other officers in charge of elections to apply an unspecified factor in the signature verification process as prescribed in the election procedures manual. Violators would be guilty of a Class 5 felony.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Hoffman

House Bill 2571

• Would prohibit county recorders from establishing on-site early voting locations, allow only qualified electors to vote by mail, prohibit electronic voting equipment, and require hand counts.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Blackman

House Bill 2577

• Would prohibit unmonitored drop boxes from accepting early ballots and change voter identification requirements.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Blackman

House Bill 2596

• A comprehensive bill that would prohibit voting without state-issued identification, require all voting to occur on Election Day, ban most mail voting, require security paper for ballots, and allow the Legislature to reject certification of election results.
• Assigned to 12 committees by House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa.
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2743

• A comprehensive bill that mandates state-issued ID for voters, bans mail voting and would require all voting to occur in-person on Election Day; would limit absentee voting, mandate security-enhanced ballots that must be counted by hand with results issued 24 hours after polls close. Would eliminate most electronic voting systems. Would prohibit requirements for voters to wear face coverings or be vaccinated.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2744

• Would restrict various features of the current election system, including repealing the active early voting list, prohibit early-voter ballots from being dropped off in-person and prohibit voting centers that allow county voters to receive the appropriate ballot on Election Day.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Fillmore

House Bill 2777

• Similar to Finchem’s House Bill 2244, it would require the auditor general to conduct audits of the election system and appropriate $800,0000 for the task, but would allow the Legislature to order the audits.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

House Bill 2778

• A one-line bill that states: “The secretary of state and the county recorder shall not use an electronic registration information center.”
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

House Bill 2785

• The attorney general would be authorized to enforce Title 16 (Elections) for any election for members of Congress, U.S. Senator or presidential elector. The attorney general could issue subpoenas and examine any computer, document or record.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Biasiucci

House Bill 2798

• Ninety days before an election, the Secretary of State’s Office would be required to obtain a complete list of deaths in Arizona by the Social Security Administration to compare to voter rolls, and to remove deceased voters from the list.
• Assigned to Government & Elections Committee
• Prime sponsor: Rep. Joel John, R-Buckeye

House Concurrent Resolution 2033

• Would notify the President of the U.S. Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Arizona’s congressional delegation that the Legislature justifies setting aside the 2020 election results in Maricopa, Pima and Yuma counties as “irredeemably flawed” and preventing a clear winner from being declared by the state’s electors.
• No committee assignment
• Prime sponsor: Finchem

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