PRINTER'S NO. 301
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.332
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, STREET, BROWN, BARTOLOTTA, LAUGHLIN,
PHILLIPS-HILL, STEFANO, KANE, COSTA, SANTARSIERO AND FARRY,
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 28, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
and defining membership of county boards of elections;
imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
elections," in dates of elections and primaries and special
elections, further providing for general primary and
candidates to be nominated and party officers to be elected.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 603 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, is amended to
read:
Section 603. General Primary; Candidates to Be Nominated and
Party Officers to Be Elected.--(a) There shall be a General
primary preceding each general election which shall be held on
the third Tuesday of May in all even-numbered years, except in
the year of the nomination of a President of the United States,
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23 in which year the General primary shall be held on the [ fourth
Tuesday of April] third Tuesday of March . Candidates for all
offices to be filled at the ensuing general election shall be
nominated at the General primary. The vote for candidates for
the office of President of the United States, as provided for by
this act, shall be cast at the General primary.
(b.1) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the General primary
for 2000 shall be held on April 4, 2000.
Section 2. The amendment of section 603 of the act shall
apply beginning with the general primary election that occurs in
2028.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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