CHAPTER NUMBER: 120
EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Elections
- Sponsored By:
-
Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee
(By Request - Departmental - Elections, State Board of)
- Entitled:
-
Election Law - Ballots - Certification of Questions and Nomination of
Candidates
Authorizing specified political parties to nominate candidates to the
ballot if the parties do not nominate candidates by primary election;
establishing filing requirements for specified candidates; providing
that unless a board of education race is partisan a candidate may not
qualify by petition or party nomination; clarifying the procedure by
which political parties must fill vacancies; requiring the county
attorney to prepare and certify specified information for specified
ballot questions; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/16
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Motion Rules Suspended Referred (Senator Green) Adopted
- Referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 1/25
- Hearing 2/9 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/13
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/14
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 2/16
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/2
- Returned Passed
House Action
- 2/17
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 3/22
- Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/31
- Favorable Report by Ways and Means
- 3/29
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/30
- Special Order 4/4 (Delegate Patterson) Adopted
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed (133-2)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/25
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 120
Sponsored by:
- Ed., Health, & Environmental Affairs Com, Chairman
- Departmental
- Elections, State Board of
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEYS
- BALLOTS
- EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
- ELECTIONS -see also- BALLOTS; CAMP FINANC; POL CANDS; VOTING
- ELECTIONS, STATE BOARD OF
- PETITIONS
- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- POLITICAL PARTIES
- REFERENDUM
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Election Law
- (
4-102 ,
5-701 ,
5-702 ,
5-703 ,
5-703.1 ,
5-1003 ,
5-1004 ,
5-1102 ,
7-103 ,
8-803
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- February 16, 2006: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
House
- March 31, 2006: Third Reading Passed (133-2)
