5305917 Resolution 20-728, Voter Registration Access and Modernization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014

A RESOLUTION

20-728

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

December 17, 2014

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to require a digital voter service system that may be executed by electronic signatures, to require the Department of Motor Vehicles to transmit to the District of Columbia Board of Elections the electronic signatures of those individuals who possess current Department of Motor Vehicles-issued identification and who submit registration applications through the digital voter service system to the board, and to make conforming amendments.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Voter Registration Access and Modernization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

                Sec. 2. (a) The Voter Registration Access and Modernization Amendment Act of 2014 passed on 2^nd reading on September 23, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-437, 61 DCR 10730). The bill was transmitted to Congress on November 12, 2014, for the 30-day congressional review period required by section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)).

(b)  Due to adjournment sine die of the 113^th Congress, the law will not become effective before the end of Council Period 20.

 

Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Voter Registration Access and Modernization Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

 Sec  4.  The resolution shall take effect immediately.