File Code: Elections
- Sponsored By:
-
Chair, Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental -
Elections, State Board of)
- Entitled:
-
Election Law - Ballots - Nomination of Candidates and Certification
of Questions
Allowing a new political party to nominate its candidates in
accordance with party rules if the party does not nominate candidates
by primary election; clarifying the manner in which political parties
may fill specified vacancies; providing that, unless a board of
education race is partisan, a candidate may not qualify by petition or
party nomination; removing a specified exception regarding the
certification of specified questions; etc.
House Action
- 2/7
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 2/9
- Hearing 2/24 at 2:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Favorable Report by Ways and Means
- 3/22
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/24
- Motion Reconsider Second Reading (Delegate Hixson) Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/25
- Third Reading Passed (126-1)
Senate Action
- 3/28
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/30
- Hearing 4/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/9
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/7
- Favorable
- Special Order 4/11 (Senator Dyson) Adopted
Sponsored by:
- Ways & Means Comm., Chairman
- Departmental
- Elections, State Board of
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BALLOTS
- EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
- ELECTIONS -see also- BALLOTS; CAMP FINANC; POL CANDS; VOTING
- PETITIONS
- POLITICAL CANDIDATES
- POLITICAL PARTIES
- REFERENDUM
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 (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
House
- Number: 445763/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 2005 at:
12:21 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Vote (Legislative date is shown):
House
- March 25, 2005: Third Reading Passed (126-1)
