File Code: Elections
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 653
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Jacobs, Blount, Hollinger, Collins, Dyson, Harris,
Lawlah, McCabe, McFadden, Sfikas, and Hooper
- Entitled:
-
Election Law - Ballot Questions - Plain English
Requiring that each question that appears on the ballot be written in
plain English; defining the term "plain English"; and requiring
specified persons to prepare a summary of a ballot question using
plain English in specified circumstances.
Senate Action
- 2/5
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 2/17
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 9
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BALLOTS
- ELECTIONS -see also- BALLOTS; CAMP FINANC; POL CANDS; VOTING
- LANGUAGE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 33 Election Code
- (
7-104
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered