PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 461
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.478
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY WEBSTER, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, SANCHEZ, DONAHUE,
GUENST, SCHLOSSBERG, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ AND CIRESI,
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 4, 2025
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, further providing for disqualifications for
service as election officer.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 12 of Article VII be amended to read:
ยง 12. Disqualifications for service as election officer.
No persons shall be qualified to serve as an election officer
who shall hold, or shall within two months have held any
office[,] or appointment [or employment] in or under the
government of the United States, or of this State, or of any
city, or county, or of any municipal board, commission or trust
in any city, save only notaries public and persons in the
National Guard or in a reserve component of the armed forces of
the United States; nor shall any election officer be eligible to
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17 any civil office to be filled at an election at which he shall
serve, save only to such subordinate municipal or local offices,
below the grade of city or county offices, as shall be
designated by general law.
Section 2. The following procedure applies to the proposed
constitutional amendment in this joint resolution:
(1) Upon the first passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
(2) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
submit the amendment to the qualified electors of this
Commonwealth at the first general or municipal election which
meets the requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania.
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