Amendment #15 to H4667

Ways and Means - Technical Amendment

Mr. Sánchez of Boston moves to amend the bill in section 4 by striking out, in lines 31 to 34, the words “including city or town clerk's offices, military recruitment offices, and offices of all state agencies that provide public assistance or assistance to people with disabilities, offices that provide state-funded programs primarily engaged in providing services to people with disabilities and any other state offices which the state secretary shall designate” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- provided they are state agencies;

And moves to further amend the bill in section 6 by inserting after the word “registry”, in line 119, the following words:- , the registry of motor vehicles and any other automatic voter registration agency as designated by the secretary,;

And moves to further amend the bill in section 7 by striking out, in line 144, the figure “42G” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- 42G ½;

And moves to further amend the bill by inserting, after section 7, the following section:-

SECTION 7A. Said chapter 51 is hereby further amended by adding the following section:-

Section 66. The registry of motor vehicles, and any other state agency, shall provide data, as deemed necessary by the state secretary, for the purposes of maintaining accurate and complete voter lists. At least every 2 months, the registry of motor vehicles, and any other state agency the secretary designates, shall electronically transmit to the secretary all data as directed by the secretary and relevant to the purposes of voter registration, including, if available, the following record fields: (i) name, current address, mailing address, date of birth, driver’s license number or last 4 digits of the social security number and telephone number; (ii) date, time and nature of the last change to the information; and (iii) any additional information designated by the state secretary for such purposes and reasonably related to maintaining accurate and complete voter lists.

The secretary shall provide the names and addresses and other data contained in said central registry, as well as information received from the registry of motor vehicles and any other agency received for the purpose of maintaining accurate and complete voting lists, to the Electronic Registration Information Center (“ERIC”).

The secretary shall implement if practicable a centralized system to manage and evaluate data received from ERIC to send mailings to voters centrally rather than from the local level. In the absence of such central management, if any actions regarding possibly inaccurate information in the voter registry requires any action by the registrars, the secretary shall provide any such information to the registrars in electronic form and in a manner minimizing data management at the local level.