(CNN) -- The Arizona state legislature approved a bill Thursday night that would make presidential candidates have to prove they are U.S. citizens before their names could appear on a state ballot.

The so-called "birther bill" got final approval by a vote of 40 to 16 in the state House, according to the website for the Arizona State Legislature.

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The bill's author, Arizona State Rep. Carl Seel, has said the bill was not targeted at President Barack Obama.

"This bill is not about Obama. It's not about that," he said. "It's about future elections and maintaining the integrity of the Constitution."

Questions have been raised about the citizenship of the president.

The bill still needs to be signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

"This bill is not about Obama. It's not about that," he said.

Heh. Yeah, okay.

Yup, he'd be looking great if he decided to just blow off the six and one half million people in AZ because he doesn't want to comply with their "silly" laws.

It wouldn't cause anyone to wonder why...

Does anyone posting here really think that Obama is not legally qualified to be president because of citizenship requirements?

Yup, he'd be looking great if he decided to just blow off the six and one half million people in AZ because he doesn't want to comply with their "silly" laws.

It wouldn't cause anyone to wonder why...

But it's not about Obama. It's about every candidate who wants to put their name on an Arizona Presidential ballot from here on out.

he bill requires a sworn statement confirming the candidates residence and... drum roll... (sorry for the caps):

A CERTIFIED COPY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE'S LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE THAT INCLUDES AT LEAST THE DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH, THE NAMES OF THE CANDIDATE'S MOTHER AND FATHER, INCLUDING INFORMATION SUFFICIENT TO DETERMINE THE CITIZENSHIP OF BOTH PARENTS, THE NAMES OF THE HOSPITAL AND THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN, IF APPLICABLE, AND SIGNATURES OF ANY WITNESSES IN ATTENDANCE.

This has been written so that Barack Obama's certificate of live birth, which does not include the name of the hospital and attending physician, does not count.

Obama is certainly the person whose...behavior caused this to be an issue of concern in the first place.

Treason? Show your work, please.

I don't see how that's going to happen...

If he isn't a citizen of the US, how is it treason?

X suggested he would win "PR" points by "blowing them off" and "ridiculing this bill".

I think President Obama has a vested interest in not providing proof of citizenship and hiding behind the DNC at this point, only because his lawyers and the legal arguments to date have made it such that no one can challenge the eligibility of a candidate.

The children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens

Apart from the ridiculous nature of questioning the overwhelming evidence already provided that he was in Hawaii, it does not matter where he was born. He inherited his citizenship from his mother.

Not according to the laws on the books

January 13, 1941 to December 23, 1952
If you were born between January 13, 1941 and December 23, 1952, you automatically acquired U.S. citizenship if both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the United States. You didn't have to do anything special to keep your U.S. citizenship.
If only one parent was a U.S. citizen, that parent must have lived in the United States for at least ten years prior to your birth, and at least five of those years must have been after your parent reached the age of 16. To keep your citizenship, you must have lived in the United States for at least two years between the ages of 14 and 28 (called a residence requirement). However, as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision, if you were born after October 9, 1952, your parent still had to fulfill the residence requirement in order to pass citizenship to you, but your own residence requirement for retaining U.S. citizenship were abolished. If your one U.S. citizen parent was your father and you were born outside of marriage, the same rules applied if your father legally legitimated you before your 21st birthday and you were unmarried at the time.