00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 287                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to absentee voting."                                                                                   
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 15.20.081(g) is amended to read:                                                                   
04            (g)  The director shall maintain a record of the name of each voter to whom an                               
05       absentee ballot is sent under this section. The record must list the date on which the                            
06       ballot is mailed or provided by electronic transmission and the date on which the                                 
07       ballot is received by the election supervisor and the dates on which the ballot was                               
08       executed and postmarked. After each general election, the director shall submit to                            
09       the commissioner of revenue a list of voters who cast absentee ballots.                                       
10    * Sec. 2. AS 15.20.081(i) is amended to read:                                                                      
11            (i)  An absentee ballot application submitted by an absent uniformed services                                
12       voter or by an absent overseas voter qualifying under AS 15.05.011 is valid through                               
13       the next two regularly scheduled general elections for federal office after the date the                          
14       application is submitted. An absentee ballot application submitted by a qualified                             
15       voter or on behalf of a qualified voter, other than a voter qualifying under                                  

01       AS 15.05.011, is valid through the next two regularly scheduled general elections                             
02       following the date the application is submitted. If a voter casts an absentee ballot                          
03       in accordance with (d) - (f) of this section that was received by the voter as a                              
04       result of an absentee ballot application, the voter's application remains valid                               
05       through the next two regularly scheduled general elections following the election                             
06       in which the ballot was cast. However, nothing in this subsection requires the                                
07       director or an election supervisor to send an absentee ballot to a voter after the                            
08       director or election supervisor has received actual notice that mail sent to the                              
09       permanent mailing address of the voter, or a different address provided by the                                
10       voter, is undeliverable to the voter at that address. In this subsection, "absent                             
11       uniformed services voter" has the meaning given in 42 U.S.C. 1973ff-6.