00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 212                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to voter registration."                                                                                
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 15.07.130(b) is amended to read:                                                                   
04 (b)  If a registered voter has not, within the preceding four calendar years,                                           
05 contacted the division and has neither voted nor appeared to vote in a local, regional                                  
06 school board, primary, special, or general election during the last four calendar years                                 
07 or [AND] a notice sent to the voter under (a) of this section was returned as                                       
08 undeliverable, the voter shall be advised by a notice sent by forwardable mail to the                                   
09 voter's last known address that registration will be inactivated unless the voter                                       
10 responds to the notice not [NO] later than 45 days after the date of the notice sent                                
11 under this subsection [SECTION]. The director shall maintain on the master register                                 
12 the name of a voter whose registration is inactivated. The director shall cancel a                                      
13 voter's inactive registration in accordance with the procedures set out in 42 U.S.C.                                    
14 1973gg-6 (sec. 8, National Voter Registration Act of 1993) after the second general                                     
15 election that occurs after the registration becomes inactive if the voter does not contact                              

01       the division or vote or appear to vote.