Election Laws

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the impact on existing voting rights procedures or what happens after a complaint is submitted, so these points remain as limits and unknowns.

Election Complaints Reporting Act

This bill requires county election commissions in Tennessee to document and electronically send complaints about voting rights violations to the state election commission.

What This Bill Does

• Requires county election commissions to write down details of any complaint they receive about someone's right to vote being violated.
• Specifies that these complaints must be sent electronically to the state election commission.

Who It Names or Affects

• County election commissions
• State election commission

Terms To Know

bonafide complaint

A real and serious concern or issue that someone brings to the attention of an authority.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens after a complaint is submitted.
• It's unclear how this will affect existing voting rights procedures in Tennessee.

Official Summary Text

Abstract summarizes the bill.

Current Bill Text

HOUSE BILL 2596
By Camper

SENATE BILL 2378
By Akbari
SB2378
012598
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2;
Title 4; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 41,
relative to voting rights.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, Chapter 12, Part 1, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
If a county election commission receives a bonafide complaint of a violation of a
person's right to vote in an election, the county election commission shall document the
details of the complaint and electronically submit the complaint to the state election
commission.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.