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2022 SESSION
SB 495 Elections; removal of officers, recall elections, application for recall petition.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Elections; removal of officers; recall elections; petition. Provides for the removal of certain elected officers and officers appointed to elected offices by recall referendum. The bill requires a petition for recall be signed by 30 percent of the total number of votes cast at the last election for the office for which a recall is sought.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101043D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105067D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101043D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/01/22 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/01/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105067D-S1
- 02/01/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/08/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N)
- 02/09/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/10/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/10/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22105067D-S1
- 02/10/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB495S1
- 02/11/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 03/01/22 House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
- 03/02/22 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2023 by voice vote
- 03/04/22 House: Continued to 2023 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote