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Minutes for HB2333 - Committee on Elections
Short Title
Prohibiting the acceptance of incomplete applications for advance voting ballots, prohibiting candidates for office from engaging in certain conduct with respect to advance voting ballots and expanding the crime of electioneering.
Minutes Content for Thu, Feb 18, 2021
Chairperson Carpenter opened the hearing on HB2333 and called on Revisor Long for an overview of the bill. Following the overview, Revisor Long answered questions.
Representative Toplikar, gave proponent testimony (Attachment 8) on HB2333 and stood for questions from Committee members. Chairperson Carpenter thanked Representative Toplikar.
Opponents to this bill were:
- Caleb Smith, Kansas Appleseed Center for Law & Justice (Attachment 9)
- Rick Piepho, Chair, Kansas County Clerks & Election Officials (Attachment 10)
- Ann Mah, Former State Representative, District 53 (Attachment 11)
- Davis Hammett, Loud Light Civic Action (Attachment 12)
Conferees answered questions and Chairperson Carpenter thanked them for their testimonies.
Written-only opponents:
- Mike Burgess, Director of Policy & Outreach, Disability Rights Center of Kansas (Attachment 13)
- Rabbi Moti Rieber, Executive Director, Kansas Interfaith Action (Attachment 14)
- Michael Poppa, Executive Director of the Mainstream Coalition (Attachment 15)
- Teresa Biggs & Cille King, Co-Presidents, League of Women Voters of Kansas (Attachment 16)
There were no neutrals to give testimony on this bill.
Chairperson Carpenter closed the hearing on HB2333.
Chairperson Carpenter asked the Secretary of State's Office staff to respond to some comments that had been made throughout the session and to answer a question from Representative Vic Miller. Katie Koupal, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Communications & Policy, and Bryan Caskey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Elections Director, provided additional information for clarification purposes.
Chairperson Carpenter announced that HB2162 has been rereferred to the Elections Committee for modifications and that bills being heard and those receiving final action would be on the agenda for next week.
The meeting adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
The next scheduled meeting of the House Elections Committee is February 23.
