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| 1 | 1 | General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5532 | |
| 2 | 2 | February Session, 2012 LCO No. 1955 | |
| 3 | - | *_____ | |
| 3 | + | *01955_______GAE* | |
| 4 | 4 | Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections | |
| 5 | 5 | Introduced by: | |
| 6 | 6 | (GAE) | |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 8 | General Assembly | |
| 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 10 | Raised Bill No. 5532 | |
| 11 | 11 | ||
| 12 | 12 | February Session, 2012 | |
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| 14 | 14 | LCO No. 1955 | |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | - | *_____ | |
| 16 | + | *01955_______GAE* | |
| 17 | 17 | ||
| 18 | 18 | Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections | |
| 19 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 20 | Introduced by: | |
| 21 | 21 | ||
| 22 | 22 | (GAE) | |
| 23 | 23 | ||
| 24 | 24 | AN ACT CONCERNING THE CROSS-ENDORSEMENT OF CANDIDATES FOR PURPOSES OF MINORITY REPRESENTATION. | |
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| 26 | 26 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: | |
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| 28 | 28 | Section 1. Subsection (g) of section 9-167a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): | |
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| 30 | 30 | (g) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be a member of the political party on whose enrollment list [his] such person's name appears on the date of [his] such person's appointment to, or of [his] such person's nomination as a candidate for election to, any office specified in subsection (a) of this section, provided: [any] (1) Any person who has applied for erasure or transfer of [his] such person's name from an enrollment list shall be considered a member of the party from whose list [he] such person has so applied for erasure or transfer for a period of three months from the date of the filing of such application, (2) for any election in which a candidate was cross-endorsed by two or more political parties, such cross-endorsed candidate shall be considered a member of the political party from which such candidate received the highest total number of votes on such party line for the office sought, and [provided further] (3) any person whose candidacy for election to an office is solely as the candidate of a party other than the party with which [he] such person is enrolled shall be deemed to be a member of the party of which [he] such person is such candidate. | |
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| 35 | 35 | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | |
| 36 | 36 | Section 1 from passage 9-167a(g) | |
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| 38 | 38 | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | |
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| 40 | 40 | Section 1 | |
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| 42 | 42 | from passage | |
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| 44 | 44 | 9-167a(g) | |
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| 46 | + | Statement of Purpose: | |
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| 48 | + | To provide that for the purposes of minority representation a candidate who is cross-endorsed will be considered a member of the political party from which the candidate received the highest number of votes, based on which party line the votes are cast. | |
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| 48 | - | GAE Joint Favorable | |
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| 50 | - | GAE | |
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| 52 | - | Joint Favorable | |
| 50 | + | [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.] |