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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7212
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4531
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING PR IMARY PETITIONS FOR CANDIDATES FOR
STATE LEGISLATIVE OFFICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 9-409 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) [Petition] Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, 3
petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or for 4
election as members of town committees shall be available from the 5
registrar beginning on the day following the making of the party's 6
endorsement of a candidate or candidates for such office or position, or 7
beginning on the day following the final day for the making of such 8
endorsement under the provisions of section 9-391, whichever comes 9
first. 10
(b) Petition forms for candidacies for nomination to the municipal 11
offices of state senator and state representative shall be available from 12
the registrar beginning on the seventy-seventh day preceding the day 13 Raised Bill No. 7212
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of the primary for such office. 14
(c) Any person who requests a petition form shall give his name and 15
address and the name, address and office or position sought of each 16
candidate for whom the petition is being obtained, and shall file a 17
statement signed by each such candidate that he consents to be a 18
candidate for such office or position. In the case of the municipal 19
offices of state senator and state representative, each such candidate 20
shall include on the statement of consent his name as he authorizes it 21
to appear on the ballot. Upon receiving such information and 22
statement, the registrar shall type or print on a petition form the name 23
and address of each such candidate, the office sought and the political 24
party holding the primary. The registrar shall give to any person 25
requesting such form one or more petition pages, suitable for 26
duplication, as the registrar deems necessary. If the person is 27
requesting the form on behalf of an indigent candidate or a group of 28
indigent candidates listed on the same petition, the registrar shall give 29
the person a number of petition pages determined by the registrar as at 30
least two times the number needed to contain the required number of 31
signatures for a candidacy for nomination to municipal office or a 32
number of petition pages determined by the registrar as at least five 33
times the number needed to contain the required number of signatures 34
for a candidacy for election as a town committee member. An original 35
petition page filled in by the registrar may be duplicated by or on 36
behalf of the candidate or candidates listed on the page and signatures 37
may be obtained on such duplicates. The duplicates may be filed in the 38
same manner and shall be subject to the same requirements as original 39
petition pages. All information relative to primary petitions shall be a 40
public record. 41
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 9-409
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Statement of Purpose:
To provide that candidates for single-town state representative seats
have the same window for the circulation of primary petitions as
candidates for multi-town state representative seats.
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not underlined.]