2025 bills / S.B. 54
S.B. 54 Appearance of Candidate Name on Ballot (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would let a candidate ask to have a middle name, a nickname, or an initial appear on the ballot in place of their first name. It sets criteria for approving these requests, creates a process for making them, and allows an appeal if a request is rejected.
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Official description
- establishes criteria for permitting a candidate to:
- use the candidate's middle name instead of the candidate's first name on a ballot
- use the candidate's nickname on a ballot; or
- use the candidate's initial on a ballot
- establishes a procedure for a candidate to request that the candidate's name appear on a ballot as described in the preceding paragraph
- provides for an appeal of a rejection of a request described in the preceding paragraph
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 54 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 54 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 24, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 3 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 65 yes, 2 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how