S382 - Disaster Relief-3/Budget/Various Law Changes. (SL 2024-57)

Session Year 2024

Overview: Sections 3A.4 and 3A.5 of S.L. 2024‑57, effective January 1, 2025, do the following:

  • Change the request deadline for absentee ballots.
  • Specify a standard deadline for cure documentation for absentee ballots and provisional ballots and for the counting of such ballots properly cured.
  • Require the meeting of county boards of elections on Election Day to be continuous until all absentee ballots received through the close of polls on Election Day have been counted.
  • Authorize a political party headquarters building fund to use contributions for any legal action and allow political parties to use that fund to make unlimited donations to any existing legal defense fund.

This bill was vetoed by the Governor on November 26, 2024, and the veto was overridden by the General Assembly on December 11, 2024.

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