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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6650
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 5628
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTIONS OF TOWN CO MMITTEE
MEMBERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 9-417 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
[If] (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if within 3
the time specified in section 9-405, no candidacy for nomination by a 4
political party to a municipal office has been filed by or on behalf of a 5
person other than a party-endorsed candidate or, in the case of election 6
as member of the town committee of such party, by persons other than 7
party-endorsed candidates numbering at least twenty-five per cent of 8
the number of town committee members to be elected by such party 9
either in the municipality or in the political subdivision, as the case may 10
be, in conformity with the provisions of sections 9-405 to 9-412, 11
inclusive, and 9-414, no primary shall be held by such party for such 12
office or for town committee members, as the case may be, and the 13
party-endorsed candidate or candidates for such office shall be deemed 14 Raised Bill No. 6650
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to have been lawfully chosen as the nominee or nominees of such party 15
to such office, or, as the case may be, and the party-endorsed candidates 16
for election as members of the town committee shall be deemed to have 17
been lawfully elected to such positions at the times specified in section 18
9-392. 19
(b) In the case of any municipality having a population of one 20
hundred thousand or more and in which a party by its rules provides, 21
pursuant to subsection (g) of section 9-390, that the town committee 22
members of such party be chosen at direct primaries, if, by four o'clock 23
p.m. on the forty-first day preceding the day of the primary of such 24
party, the number of persons who have requested petition forms for 25
candidacies for election as members of such town committee and filed a 26
signed statement consenting to be a candidate for such position, in 27
accordance with subsection (c) of section 9-409, is equal to or less than 28
the number of town committee members to be elected by such party, but 29
at least twenty-five per cent of such number, in accordance with section 30
9-411, then (1) the requirements regarding such persons' filing of 31
candidacies for election under section 9-405 and signed petitions under 32
section 9-406 shall not apply, (2) the requirements regarding the 33
registrar's receipt of petition pages and certification of signatures on 34
such pages under section 9-412 shall not apply, and (3) no primary shall 35
be held by such party for town committee members and such persons 36
shall be deemed to have lawfully been elected to such positions at the 37
times specified in section 9-392. 38
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 9-417
GAE Joint Favorable