HB4299 S JUD AM #1 2-14

Smith  7883

The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

ARTICLE 9. OFFENSES AND PENALTIES.

§3-9-21. Improper interference with voters’ travel to and from the polls; penalties.

Any person, during hours a polling place is open for any election, who intentionally physically interferes with a voter’s travel on the walkways, driveways, and parking areas adjacent to a building in which a polling place is located with the intention to delay, hinder, interrupt, harass, or intimidate a voter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $1,000 or confined in jail for not more than one year or both fined and confined.

Adopted

Rejected