Bills › 88th General Assembly
Relating to nominations of certain persons for political office, and including effective date provisions
Topics:Elections & voting
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2020
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People running for office cannot file paperwork to be a partisan candidate and a nonparty candidate for the same position in the same election. The bill also changes the deadline for when people can file to run for nonpartisan offices. These new rules affect candidates and election officials during even-numbered years.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the conduct of elections. The bill prohibits a person who files an affidavit of candidacy to be a partisan candidate for an office in an election from filing an affidavit of candidacy to be a candidate for a nonparty political organization or to be nominated by petition for the same office in the same election. The bill changes the filing deadline for nominations for nonpartisan offices which are required to be filed in the office of the county commissioner of elections from not later than 5:00 p.m. on the 74th day before the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered year to not later than 5:00 p.m. on the 69th day before the date of the general election. The bill takes effect upon enactment.