PRINTER'S NO. 697
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.658
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, DUSH AND BROWN, APRIL 28, 2025
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 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 affidavits of candidates;
and, in nomination of candidates, further providing for
affidavits of candidates, for nominations by political
bodies, for limitations on eligibility of candidates and for
affidavits of candidates .
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 630.1, 910, 951(e), 951.1 and 981.1 of
the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the
Pennsylvania Election Code, are amended to read:
Section 630.1. Affidavits of Candidates.--Each candidate for
any State, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township,
school district or poor district office, or for the office of
United States Senator or Representative in Congress, selected as
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25 provided in section 630 of this act, shall file with the
nomination certificate an affidavit stating--(a) his residence,
with street and number, if any, and his post-office address; (b)
his election district, giving city, borough, town or township;
(c) the name of the office for which he consents to be a
candidate; (d) that he is eligible for such office; (e) that he
will not knowingly violate any provision of this act, or of any
law regulating and limiting election expenses and prohibiting
corrupt practices in connection therewith; (f) unless he is a
candidate for judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia
Municipal Court or for the office of school board in a district
where that office is elective or for the office of justice of
the peace, that he is not a candidate for the same office of any
party or political body other than the one designated in such
certificate; (f.1) that he is not a candidate for any other
office; (g) that he is aware of the provisions of section 1626
of this act requiring election and post-election reporting of
campaign contributions and expenditures; and (h) that he is not
a candidate for an office which he already holds, the term of
which is not set to expire in the same year as the office
subject to the affidavit.
Section 910. Affidavits of Candidates.--Each candidate for
any State, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township,
ward, school district, poor district, election district, party
office, party delegate or alternate, or for the office of United
States Senator or Representative in Congress, shall file with
his nomination petition his affidavit stating--(a) his
residence, with street and number, if any, and his post-office
address; (b) his election district, giving city, borough, town
or township; (c) the name of the office for which he consents to
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30 be a candidate; (d) that he is eligible for such office; (e)
that he will not knowingly violate any provision of this act, or
of any law regulating and limiting nomination and election
expenses and prohibiting corrupt practices in connection
therewith; (f) unless he is a candidate for judge of a court of
common pleas, the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the office
of school director in a district where that office is elective
or for the office of justice of the peace that he is not a
candidate for nomination for the same office of any party other
than the one designated in such petition; (f.1) that he is not a
candidate for any other office; (g) if he is a candidate for a
delegate, or alternate delegate, member of State committee,
National committee or party officer, that he is a registered and
enrolled member of the designated party; (h) if he is a
candidate for delegate or alternate delegate the presidential
candidate to whom he is committed or the term "uncommitted"; (i)
that he is aware of the provisions of section 1626 of this act
requiring pre-election and post-election reporting of campaign
contributions and expenditures; and (j) that he is not a
candidate for an office which he already holds, the term of
which is not set to expire in the same year as the office
subject to the affidavit. In cases of petitions for delegate and
alternate delegate to National conventions, the candidate's
affidavit shall state that his signature to the delegate's
statement, as hereinafter set forth, if such statement is signed
by said candidate, was affixed to the sheet or sheets of said
petition prior to the circulation of same. In the case of a
candidate for nomination as President of the United States, it
shall not be necessary for such candidate to file the affidavit
required in this section to be filed by candidates, but the
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30 post-office address of such candidate shall be stated in such
nomination petition.
Section 951. Nominations by Political Bodies.--* * *
(e) There shall be appended to each nomination paper offered
for filing an affidavit of each candidate nominated therein,
stating--(1) the election district in which he resides; (2) the
name of the office for which he consents to be a candidate; (3)
that he is eligible for such office; (4) that he will not
knowingly violate any provision of this act, or of any law
regulating and limiting election expenses, and prohibiting
corrupt practices in connection therewith; (5) that his name has
not been presented as a candidate by nomination petitions for
any public office to be voted for at the ensuing primary
election, nor has he been nominated by any other nomination
papers filed for any such office; (6) that in the case where he
is a candidate for election at a general or municipal election,
he was not a registered and enrolled member of a party thirty
(30) days before the primary held prior to the general or
municipal election in that same year; (7) that, in the case
where he is a candidate for election at a special election, he
is not a registered and enrolled member of a party; [ and] (8)
that he is not a candidate for an office which he already holds,
the term of which is not set to expire in the same year as the
office subject to the affidavit ; and (9) that he is not a
candidate for any other office .
Section 951.1. Limitations on Eligibility of Candidates.--
(a) Any person who is a registered and enrolled member of a
party during any period of time beginning with thirty (30) days
before the primary and extending through the general or
municipal election of that same year shall be ineligible to be
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30 the candidate of a political body in a general or municipal
election held in that same year nor shall any person who is a
registered and enrolled member of a party be eligible to be the
candidate of a political body for a special election.
(b) Subject to subsection (a), a candidate may not seek
nomination or appear on a ballot for more than one public office
in an election.
Section 981.1. Affidavits of Candidates.--Each candidate for
any State, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township,
ward, school district, poor district or election district
office, or for the office of United States Senator or
Representative in Congress, selected as provided in sections 979
and 980 of this act, shall file with the substituted nomination
certificate an affidavit stating--(a) his residence, with street
and number, if any, and his post-office address; (b) his
election district, giving city, borough, town or township; (c)
the name of the office for which he consents to be a candidate;
(d) that he is eligible for such office; (e) that he will not
knowingly violate any provision of this act, or of any law
regulating and limiting election expenses and prohibiting
corrupt practices in connection therewith; (f) unless he is a
candidate for judge of a court of common pleas, the Philadelphia
Municipal Court or for the office of school board in a district
where that office is elective or for the office of justice of
the peace, that he is not a candidate for the same office of any
party or political body other than the one designated in such
certificate; (f.1) that he is not a candidate for any other
office; (g) that he is aware of the provisions of section 1626
of this act requiring election and post-election reporting of
campaign contributions and expenditures; and (h) that he is not
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30 a candidate for an office which he already holds, the term of
which is not set to expire in the same year as the office
subject to the affidavit.
Section 2. This act shall apply to elections held at least
90 days after the effective date of this section.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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