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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITY | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Edwards, Cortvriend, Potter, Kazarian, Kennedy, | |
Date Introduced: February 26, 2025 | |
Referred To: House State Government & Elections | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 17-8-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 17-8 entitled "Local |
2 | Canvassing Authorities" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 17-8-2. Term and qualifications for office. |
4 | (a) Each member of a local canvassing authority shall be appointed to serve for a term of |
5 | six (6) years beginning on the first Monday of March succeeding the date of his or her appointment |
6 | and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. No person shall be appointed or serve as a |
7 | member of the authority who is an officer or employee of the United States or of this state, or who |
8 | is an officer or employee of the authority’s city or town; provided, that in any city a member of the |
9 | authority may be employed as its clerk. Any member of the authority who becomes a candidate for |
10 | election to any public office and who fails to file a declination of the candidacy within the time |
11 | allowed by law shall be disqualified from holding membership upon the authority and his or her |
12 | successor shall be immediately elected. |
13 | (b) No member of the authority may hold any partisan office including town/city party |
14 | committees or representative/senate district committees. Any member who fails to file a declination |
15 | of candidacy, within ten (10) days of declaring said candidacy, shall be subject to a five hundred |
16 | dollar ($500) fine and immediate dismissal from the authority. This requirement shall apply to |
17 | membership on partisan elected state committees, as outlined above, as well. |
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1 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS -- LOCAL CANVASSING AUTHORITY | |
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1 | This act would prohibit members of elected city/town political party committees as well as |
2 | representative/senate district committees from serving on local canvassing authorities. |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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