HB2364 S JUD AMT

Greenlief 7835

The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 2364–A Bill to amend and reenact §3-1-37 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended and to amend and reenact §3-9-9 of said Code, all relating to restrictions on presence and conduct at or within one hundred feet of polls; prohibiting persons other than voters and election officials from being or remaining within one hundred feet of entrance of polling place while polls open; permitting person delivering voter to polling place to discharge voter within one hundred feet of entrance of polling place; requiring person delivering voter to remove vehicle one hundred feet until the voter is to be transported from polling place or another voter delivered; permitting vehicles delivering voters who require assistance to remain within one hundred feet of entrance until voter is to be transported from polling place; defining electioneering; prohibiting electioneering in or within one hundred feet of polling place on election day; prohibiting electioneering in or within one hundred feet of early voting polling places during early voting periods; providing exceptions to electioneering prohibitions for persons upon his or her private property; clarifying that electioneering on private property near polling places must conform to other existing laws and ordinances; and making stylistic changes to outdated language.