Connecticut 2015 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00599 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/22/2015

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 599
January Session, 2015  LCO No. 2575
 *02575*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. MCLACHLAN, 24th Dist. REP. SMITH, 108th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 599 

January Session, 2015

LCO No. 2575

*02575*

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS 

Introduced by:

SEN. MCLACHLAN, 24th Dist.

REP. SMITH, 108th Dist.

AN ACT MOVING THE STATE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY TO AN EARLIER DATE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 9-464 of the general statutes be amended to move the state Republican presidential preference primary from the last Tuesday in April to the first Thursday in March of each year in which the President of the United States is to be elected.

Statement of Purpose: 

To hold the state Republican presidential preference primary on the first Thursday in March instead of the last Tuesday in April.