ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session
	Senate: GOV DP 5-3-0-0 | 3^rd Read 16-14-0-0 House: GE DP 8-5-0-0

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SB 1793: voter registration databases; death records

Sponsor:  Senator Gowan, LD  14

Caucus & COW

Overview

Directs the Secretary of State (SOS) to establish a nonpublic database for use by county recorders to cancel the names of deceased people from the county voter registration databases.

History

Each month the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) is required to transmit, without charge, a record of the death of every resident of this state within the preceding month to the SOS.  The SOS must use the record for the sole purpose of canceling the names of deceased people from the statewide voter registration database.  Additionally, DHS must annually provide, without charge, to the SOS a record of all deaths of residents of this state from the statewide electronic death registration system.  The SOS is then authorized to compare the records of deaths with the statewide voter registration database (A.R.S. § 16-165).

The director of DHS is the state registrar of vital records.  Current statute outlines the various duties of the state registrar of vital records which includes transmitting, each month, to the county recorder a record of the death of each resident of the county recorder's county who is at least 16 years of age (A.R.S. § 36-302).

Provisions

1. Instructs the SOS to use the death records from DHS to establish a nonpublic database for use by county recorders to cancel the names of deceased people from the county voter registration databases. (Sec. 1)

2. Allows county recorders to compare the death records with the county voter registration database. (Sec. 1)

3. Requires the state registrar of vital records to additionally transmit a record of the death of each resident to the SOS. (Sec. 2)

4. Directs the state registrar of vital records to annually transmit an end of year compilation of the records of deaths to the SOS and the county recorder. (Sec. 2)

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