Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2 and Title 2, Chapter 7.

This bill revises various provisions governing elections, as follows: (1) This bill prohibits an individual who is not a citizen of the United States from voting in a federal, state, or local election and prohibits a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state from granting voting rights to a person who is not a United States citizen for an election; (2) This bill adds the following to the election laws: (A) Lists of registered voters may be provided to federal courts for purposes of selecting jurors on the condition that the jury coordinator provides notice pursuant to (B) regarding ineligible or potentially ineligible voters; (B) The jury coordinator must prepare or cause to be prepared a list of each person disqualified or potentially disqualified as a prospective juror from jury service due to being a non-United States citizen, convicted of a felony, deceased, not a resident of this state, or not a resident of the county. The list must be prepared and sent to the coordinator of elections according to the jury summons cycle used by the court clerk. This provision will not prevent the list from being sent more frequently. The list may be provided by mail, facsimile transmission, or email; (C) The jury coordinator must provide the coordinator of elections with the following information about each disqualified juror: the full name of the disqualified juror; current and prior addresses, if any; telephone number, if available; date of birth; and the reason the prospective juror was disqualified; (D) After verifying that the person is a registered voter, the coordinator of elections must forward the information to the administrator of elections in the county where the voter is registered; (E) The administrator of elections must follow the procedures for purging registrations (TCA 2-2-106) or requiring proof of citizenship for registering to vote (TCA 2-2-141), as prescribed by present law and as amended by this bill (discussed below); (F) In addition to the list of names, if the jury coordinator has documentation showing the person's disqualification, the documentation may be forwarded to the coordinator of elections; (3) Present law provides a mechanism for purging voter registrations, including an address verification program. This bill adds to the provisions governing the address verification program that information received from the coordinator of elections as a result of a comparison of voter registration addresses with the residential addresses of record with another state agency, including, but not limited to, state welfare and public assistance agencies may be used to identify any voter who has changed the voter's address of residence without notifying the county election commission. This bill authorizes the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with those of other relevant state agencies and county records for this purpose. This bill provides that information received from the coordinator of elections as a result of a comparison of voter registration addresses to commercially available data, such as data from credit agencies; (4) Present law requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state. This bill makes this provision discretionary instead of mandatory; and (5) Present law requires the officer of elections to keep a record of each person who declares, by reason of illiteracy or physical disability, to need assistance in marking the person's ballot, including the name of the voter and of the person marking the ballot and, if marked by a judge, the name of the judge or other official in whose presence the ballot was marked. This bill requires that the reason for the need for assistance also be included in the record. Present law contains similar provisions, and this bill makes similar changes to those provisions, for persons who are blind. ON APRIL 4, 2022, THE SENATE SUBSTITUTED HOUSE BILL 2128 FOR SENATE BILL 2245, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1, AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2128, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 deletes the provisions of this bill concerning records of declarations as described in (5) of the Bill Summary.