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2017 SESSION
SB 1302 Write-in votes; duties of local electoral boards.
Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Write-in votes; duties of local electoral boards. Provides that when no person is elected to an office by write-in votes and the difference between the total number of votes cast for the candidate elected or the candidate elected with the fewest number of votes and the total number of write-in votes cast for that office is more than five percent of the total number of write-in votes and the number of votes cast for such candidate elected, the electoral board is required only to ascertain and the abstract of votes is required only to contain the total number of write-in votes cast for that office.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103065D pdf | impact statement
- 01/17/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104357D-S1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/10/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103065D
- 01/10/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/17/17 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (7-Y 3-N)
- 01/17/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104357D-S1
- 01/19/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/17 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/23/17 Senate: Read second time
- 01/23/17 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/23/17 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17104357D-S1
- 01/23/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1302S1
- 01/24/17 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 17-N)
- 01/31/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/31/17 House: Read first time
- 01/31/17 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/31/17 House: Assigned P & E sub: Elections
- 02/14/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/17 House: Left in Privileges and Elections