CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
File Code: State Government - Agencies, Offices, and Officials
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Gordon and Kagan
- Entitled:
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Attorney General - Appointment to Fill Vacancy
Specifying that in filling a vacancy in the office of Attorney
General, the Governor shall select a person whose name has been
submitted by the State central committee of the same political party,
if any, with which the vacating Attorney General was affiliated at the
time of the election or appointment of the vacating Attorney General;
and requiring the advice and consent of the Senate.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/26
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
- Delegate Cheryl C. Kagan, District 17
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
- GENERAL ASSEMBLY -see also- LEGISLATIVE POLICY COM., AELR
- GOVERNOR
- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- REFERENDUM
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - Attorney-General and State's Attorneys
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5
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- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available