2025 bills / H.B. 291
H.B. 291 Mayoral Recall Election Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill sets up a process for voters to force a recall election for a mayor. It lays out the steps for filing an application, gathering and checking signatures on a petition, holding the election, and making the ballot, and it makes misconduct involving the petition a crime.
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Official description
- defines terms
- establishes a procedure to require a recall election for a mayor
- establishes requirements to file a recall application and petition
- describes requirements for a petition for a recall election, gathering and submitting signatures, removing signatures, and evaluating signatures
- establishes requirements for holding a recall election and determining the results of a recall election
- establishes ballot requirements for a recall election
- establishes criminal penalties for misconduct relating to a petition for a recall election
- makes technical and conforming changes
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- An alert the day H.B. 291 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 291 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
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