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SB 1289: candidate petitions; filing period; committees

PRIME SPONSOR: Senator Gowan, LD 14

BILL STATUS: Caucus & COW

                                ELECT: DP 6-4-0-0

Overview

Modifies the date that nomination papers and petitions must be filed before an election.

History

Any person desiring to become a candidate at an election and to have a person's name printed on the official ballot must sign and file a nomination paper or petition not less than 90 days and not more than 120 days before the primary election. Nomination papers must contain the person's actual residence, the party the candidate wishes to become a candidate in, unless it is a nonpartisan position, the office and county, city, town, district, ward or precinct they desire to run in, how their name should be printed on the ballot, and the date of the general election of which the person desires to become a candidate.

Nomination paper is defined as the form filed with the appropriate office by a person wishing to declare the person's intent to become a candidate for a particular political office (A.R.S. § 16-311).

Nomination petition is defined as the form or forms used for obtaining the required number of signatures of qualified electors, which is circulated by or on behalf of the person wishing to become a candidate for a political office (A.R.S. § 16-314). 

Provisions

1. Requires any person desiring to become a candidate for a political party or at a nonpartisan election and have their name printed on the official ballot to sign and file their nomination papers no more than 105 days before the election. (Sec. 1)

2. Allows a city or town to adopt the state ordinances for filing nomination petitions if it is adopted no less than 105 days before the first election to which it applies. (Sec. 1)

3. Requires any person desiring to become a candidate and have their name printed on the official ballot to sign and file their nomination petition no more than 105 days before the election. (Sec. 2, 3)

4. States that a candidate must register as a candidate committee if the candidate receives contributions or makes expenditures, in any combination, of at least the monetary threshold prescribed in statute or collects one or more signatures on a candidate nomination petition, whichever occurs first. (Sec. 4)

5. Specifies that a candidate committee must file a campaign finance report if the candidate committee receives contributions that meet the monetary threshold prescribed in statute. (Sec. 5)

6. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2, 3, 4)

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10. Fifty-fourth Legislature                       SB 1289

11. First Regular Session                            Version 2: Caucus & COW

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