Reference is to Printer's Date 3/7/13-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Section 7-15-320, as contained in SECTION 7, by deleting the SECTION in its entirety and inserting:
/ SECTION 7. Section 7-15-320 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 43 of 2011, is further amended to read:
"Section 7-15-320.
(A) A qualified elector in any
of the following categories must be permitted to vote by
absentee ballot in all elections when he is absent from his
county of residence on election day during the hours the polls
are open, to an extent that it prevents him from voting in
person:
(1) students,
their spouses, and dependents residing with them;
(2) members
of the Armed Forces and Merchant Marines of the United States,
their spouses, and dependents residing with them;
(3) persons
serving with the American Red Cross or with the United Service
Organizations (USO) who are attached to and serving with the
Armed Forces of the United States, their spouses, and dependents
residing with them;
(4)
governmental employees, their spouses, and
dependents residing with them;
(5) persons
on vacation (who by virtue of vacation plans will be absent from
their county of residence on election day); or
(6) overseas
citizens.
(B)
A qualified elector in any of the following
categories must be permitted to vote by absentee ballot in all
elections, whether or not he is absent from his county of
residence on election day:
(1)
physically disabled persons;
(2) persons
whose employment obligations require that they be at their place
of employment during the hours that the polls are open and
present written certification of that obligation to the county
registration board;
(3) certified
poll watchers, poll managers, county voter registration board
members and staff, county and state election commission members
and staff working on election day;
(4) persons
attending sick or physically disabled persons;
(5) persons
admitted to hospitals as emergency patients on the day of an
election or within a four-day period before the election;
(6) persons
with a death or funeral in the family within a three-day period
before the election;
(7) persons
who will be serving as jurors in a state or federal court on
election day;
(8) persons
sixty-five years of age or older; or
(9) persons
confined to a jail or pretrial facility pending disposition of
arrest or trial. A qualified elector may vote during
the early voting period pursuant to Section 7-13-25.
(B) A
qualified elector in any of the following categories must be
permitted to vote by absentee ballot in all elections:
(1)
students, their spouses, and dependents residing
with them;
(2)
members of the Armed Forces and Merchant Marines
of the United States, their spouses, and dependents residing
with them;
(3)
persons serving with the American Red Cross or
with the United Service Organization (USO) who are attached to
and serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, their
spouses, and dependents residing with them;
(4)
physically disabled persons who are, pursuant to
certification by a physician, unable to vote in person because
of their physical disability at either a polling place or early
voting center;
(5)
overseas citizens;
(6)
persons sixty-five years of age or older;
(7)
persons confined to a jail or pretrial facility
pending disposition of arrest or trial;
(8)
certified poll watchers, poll managers, county
voter registration board members and staff, county and state
election commission members and staff working on election
day;
(9)
persons admitted to hospitals as emergency
patients on the day of an election or within a four-day period
before the election;
(10)
persons who will be serving as jurors in a state
or federal court on election day;
(11)
governmental employees, their spouses, and
dependents residing with them;
(12)
persons on vacation who by virtue of vacation
plans will be absent from their county of residence on election
day;
(13)
persons whose employment obligations require
that they be at their place of employment during the hours that
the polls are open and present written certification of that
obligation to the county registration board;
(14)
persons attending sick or physically disabled
persons; or
(15)
persons with a death or funeral in the family
within a three-day period before the election." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.