Teen Driving and Voting Before the House Today

Today’s session of the House of Representatives will address a number of bills of interest.  Returning from yesterday’s agenda:

Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 21. Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the State Constitution to Allow Seventeen-Year-Old Persons Who Will be Eighteen Years of Age at the Next Regular Election to Vote in Primaries Related to Such Election. -resolution proposes a constitutional amendment allowing 17-year-old citizens who will turn 18 on or before the day of a regular election to vote in its primary. Under the resolution, such an individual must apply and otherwise qualify for admission as an elector. He or she may then vote in the primary held to determine nominees for the regular election. Upon turning 18, the individual’s electoral rights attach.

Also,

HB 5748. An Act Concerning Teen Driving – The bill establishes several new requirements for 16- and 17-year-olds, and in some cases their parents or legal guardians, both before and after they get their drivers’ licenses.

HB 5894. An Act Concerning the Recall of Certain Elected Municipal Officials -authorizes Connecticut municipalities to recall municipal elected officials serving four-year terms after their first 120 days in office and before their last 120 days. To do so, a municipality’s legislative body or board of selectmen, whichever is applicable, must adopt an ordinance authorizing recall through referendum. The ordinance must comply with the bill’s requirements concerning the grounds, initiating action, petition, signature requirements and verification process, and referendum’s voting threshold, among other things.