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2014 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections
Subcommittee Campaigns and Elections

Petersen (Chairman), Martin, Vogel, Reeves, Alexander, Marsden, Ebbin

Clerk: Maribeth Turner
Staff: Mary Spain, Meg Burruss
Date of Meeting: February 19, 2014
Time and Place: Wednesday, 10 AM, Senate Room A

H.B. 632 Elections; substitution of officers of election.

Patron: Kilgore

Elections; substitution of officers of election. Requires the electoral board to appoint a substitute officer of election for any election if an appointed officer of election is the spouse, parent, grandparent, child, or grandchild of a candidate in that election. Currently, a candidate may request the removal of an officer of election for these grounds. The substitute holds office and serves only for that election.

H.B. 669 Absentee ballots; date requirement.

Patron: Herring

Elections; absentee ballots; date requirement. Provides that a voter's failure to provide the date, or any part of the date, on which he signed the statement on the back of the return envelope shall not render that ballot void or provide officers of election with a basis for rejection.

H.B. 1200 Elections; qualifications of candidates, residency of candidates for General Assembly.

Patron: Minchew

Elections; qualifications of candidates; residency of candidates for General Assembly. Provides that a person seeking to qualify in a special election as a candidate for the General Assembly who establishes residency in a General Assembly district in which he was not previously a resident within 60 days prior to the date upon which the statement of qualification is due for the office shall be permitted to use his new domicile to serve as his residency for purposes of candidate qualification for that office upon a finding of a circuit court that there is clear and convincing evidence of an intent to abandon the prior domicile and an intent to make the new domicile his permanent residency regardless of the outcome of the election. The bill requires the court to hear the matter not later than five days after the filing of a request for such a determination. The provisions of this section shall not apply in the year a decennial redistricting law is enacted.