HB 2037

PREFILED��� DEC 04 2025
REFERENCE TITLE: automatic voter registration
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HB 2037
Introduced by
Representative
  Travers
AN
ACT
amending section 16-112, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to qualification and registration of electors.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-112, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE16-112. Driver license voter registration
A. Every person who is applying for a driver license
or renewal, including a nonoperating identification license or
renewal issued pursuant to title 28, chapter 8, or who is making changes to
license information and who is otherwise qualified to register to vote, at the same time and place, shall be allowed to register to vote
shall be registered to vote automatically on completing the
application for the license or renewal or submitting the changes and by
providing the information prescribed by section 16-152.� The method used
to register voters shall require only the minimum information necessary to
prevent duplicate registrations, to enable elections officials to determine
voter eligibility and to administer voter registration and election laws. A
registration form shall be included for a person who is applying for a driver
license renewal by mail, including a nonoperating identification
license, or who is making changes to license INFORMATION by mail.� On
completing a form that contains at least the information prescribed by section
16-121.01 and that may contain the information prescribed by section 16-152, and on receipt of that form by the
county recorder from the department of transportation as prescribed by
subsection D of this section and if the person does not decline
to be registered to vote within twenty-one calendar days after issuance
of notice of the process to decline, the applicant is presumed to be
properly registered to vote.� That presumption may be rebutted as provided in
section 16-121.01.
B. The director of the department of transportation
and the secretary of state shall consult at least every two years regarding
voter registration at driver license offices.� The director of the department
of transportation and the secretary of state, after consultation with all
county recorders, shall adopt rules to implement a system allowing driver
license applicants, including nonoperating identification
license applicants and persons who are making changes to license information, to
register to vote at the same time and place as they apply for driver licenses, including nonoperating identification licenses, to implement the
automatic voter registration of applicants. The system shall provide
for the county recorder on receipt of the registration information from the
department of transportation to notify the person of the process to decline to
register to vote and that if the person does not decline to register to vote
within twenty-one calendar days after the county recorder issues the
notification, and the person otherwise is eligible to register to vote, the
person is presumed to be properly registered to vote.� The rules shall:
1. Bring the license application and voter
registration application forms into substantial conformity.
2. Allow the transfer of driver license
applications, including nonoperating identification license
applications and renewal, and
change of address and other license information changes,
and voter registration information from the department of transportation to the
voter registration rolls.
3. Respect all rules and statutes of this state
concerning the confidentiality of driver license application information.
4. Provide for the manual or electronic generation
and transmittal of voter registrations and provide for electronic generation of
changes in voter registration information, including address, in conformity
with the confidentiality requirements of the national voter registration act of
1993 (P.L. 103-31; 107 Stat. 77; 52 United States Code sections 20501
through 20511).
C. The department of transportation shall provide to
applicants a statement that provides each eligibility requirement for voting,
including citizenship, an attestation that the applicant meets each
requirement, for the signature of the applicant under penalty of perjury and,
in print that is identical to that used in the attestation, the following:
1. A description of the penalties provided by law
for the submission of a false voter registration application.
2. A statement that if an applicant declines to
register to vote the fact that the applicant has declined to register will
remain confidential and will be used only for voter registration purposes.
3. A statement that if an applicant does register to
vote the office at which the applicant submits a voter registration application
will remain confidential and will be used only for voter registration purposes.
D. The department of transportation shall return or
mail completed registrations to the county recorder of the county in which the
applicant resides within five days after receipt of a completed registration.
E. A person who is not qualified to
register to vote and who unknowingly registers under this section is not guilty
of false registration or false swearing as prescribed by section 16-182
or 16-184. END_STATUTE
Sec. 2. Effective date
This act is effective from and after
December 31, 2026.