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                          HOUSE BILL 2678

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By Representatives Upthegrove, McDermott, Chase and Kagi

Read first time 01/23/2002.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Requiring institutions of higher education to put in place an active prompt on their web sites that link to the secretary of state's voter registration web site.

    AN ACT Relating to voter registration; and amending RCW 29.07.025.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 29.07.025 and 1994 c 57 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Each state agency designated under RCW 29.07.420 shall provide voter registration services for employees and the public within each office of that agency.

    (2) The secretary of state shall design and provide a standard notice informing the public of the availability of voter registration, which notice shall be posted in each state agency where such services are available.

    (3) The secretary of state shall design and provide standard voter registration forms for use by these state agencies.

(4) Each institution of higher education shall put in place an active prompt on its course registration web site, or similar web site that students actively and regularly use, that, if selected, will link the student to the secretary of state's voter registration web site.  The prompt must ask the student if he or she wishes to register to vote.

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