House Bill No. 7212
Public Act No. 19-50
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 Section 9-409 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019):
(a) [Petition] Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,
petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or for
election as members of town committees shall be available from the
registrar beginning on the day following the making of the party's
endorsement of a candidate or candidates for such office or position, or
beginning on the day following the final day for the making of such
endorsement under the provisions of section 9-391, whichever comes
first.
(b) Petition forms for candidacies for nomination to the municipal
offices of state senator and state representative shall be available from
the registrar beginning on the seventy-seventh day preceding the day
of the primary for such office.
(c) Any person who requests a petition form shall give his name and
address and the name, address and office or position sought of each
candidate for whom the petition is being obtained, and shall file a House Bill No. 7212
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statement signed by each such candidate that he consents to be a
candidate for such office or position. In the case of the municipal
offices of state senator and state representative, each such candidate
shall include on the statement of consent his name as he authorizes it
to appear on the ballot. Upon receiving such information and
statement, the registrar shall type or print on a petition form the name
and address of each such candidate, the office sought and the political
party holding the primary. The registrar shall give to any person
requesting such form one or more petition pages, suitable for
duplication, as the registrar deems necessary. If the person is
requesting the form on behalf of an indigent candidate or a group of
indigent candidates listed on the same petition, the registrar shall give
the person a number of petition pages determined by the registrar as at
least two times the number needed to contain the required number of
signatures for a candidacy for nomination to municipal office or a
number of petition pages determined by the registrar as at least five
times the number needed to contain the required number of signatures
for a candidacy for election as a town committee member. An original
petition page filled in by the registrar may be duplicated by or on
behalf of the candidate or candidates listed on the page and signatures
may be obtained on such duplicates. The duplicates may be filed in the
same manner and shall be subject to the same requirements as original
petition pages. All information relative to primary petitions shall be a
public record.