2025 bills / S.B. 300
S.B. 300 Election Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee (stopped here)
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill sets rules for filling vacancies in elected offices and candidate slots. For certain candidate vacancies, a political party would appoint one person chosen by a majority vote of its delegates, and for certain mid-term vacancies the governor would pick one of three people selected by party delegates.
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Official description
- defines terms
- describes the circumstances under which a political party is permitted to fill a candidate vacancy
- for the candidate vacancies described in this bill, provides that the candidate vacancy is filled by the applicable political party appointing one individual selected by a majority vote of the applicable political party delegates
- for the midterm vacancies described in this bill, provides that the vacancy is filled, or in certain circumstances temporarily filled, by the governor appointing one of three individuals determined by a majority vote of the applicable political party delegates
- requires the party liaison to communicate the result of a vote of delegates described in the preceding paragraphs
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 300 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 300 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
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 1 no, 4 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 7 noFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how