HB 2036

PREFILED��� DEC 04 2025
REFERENCE TITLE: voter registration; same day
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HB 2036
Introduced by
Representative
  Travers
AN
ACT
amending title 16, chapter 1, Arizona
Revised Statutes, by adding article 1.2; relating to voter registration.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 16, chapter 1, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding article 1.2, to read:
ARTICLE 1.2. SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION
START_STATUTE16-115. Registration on election day and preceding twenty-eight
days; provisional ballot; qualifying elections
A. Notwithstanding
any other law and except as provided in subsection B of this section:
1. A
person who is otherwise qualified to register to vote may register to vote
during the twenty-eight days immediately preceding an election and is eligible
to vote in that election if the person has been a resident of the county and
the precinct in which the person resides for at least twenty-nine days
immediately preceding the election, and The person completes a registration
form as provided in section 16-152.
2. A
person who is otherwise qualified to register to vote may register to vote on
election day by appearing at the polling place for the precinct in which that
person maintains the person's residence, completing a registration form as
provided in section 16-152 and providing proof of residence.
3. A
person who registers to vote pursuant to this section may vote on election day
or in the twenty-eight days immediately preceding that election only with a
provisional ballot as prescribed in section 16-584 and may vote as
otherwise provided by law for any election held at least twenty-nine days
after the election day for which the person registered.
B. Registration
pursuant to this section qualifies the person to vote only for candidates for
federal offices, including presidential electors, statewide and countywide
offices and the legislature but does not qualify a person to vote in a partisan
primary election.
C. The
secretary of state and county officers in charge of elections shall promptly
implement this article.
END_STATUTE