relative to the disposal of electronic ballot counting device external memory devices.

The bill's status label changed from 'As Amended by the Senate' to 'Version Adopted by Both Bodies,' reflecting that the bill passed both legislative chambers. No policy language, scope, funding, eligibility, or other substantive content was altered.

The House version required only storage devices from machines that capture digital images to be disposed of like ballots, while explicitly exempting devices from machines that do not capture images. The Senate version removed this distinction, requiring all external storage devices - regardless of whether they capture digital images - to be disposed of in the same manner as ballots and related materials.

The Senate added a new provision stating that disposal may be achieved either by physically destroying the storage device or by secure erasure that permanently destroys all election-related data on the device, specifically listing election programming, vote tallies, and digital images as data that must be destroyed.

The disposal requirement now applies only to external storage devices of electronic ballot counting devices that capture digital images. Devices that do not capture digital images are explicitly excluded from the same-manner-as-ballots disposal requirement.

A new carve-out was added stating that storage devices of electronic ballot counting devices that do NOT capture digital images shall not be disposed of in the same manner as ballots, absentee ballot applications, affidavit envelopes, and lists.