REFERENCE TITLE: recall; petitions; qualified signers; committee

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fiftieth Legislature Second Regular Session 2012

HCR 2020

Introduced by Representatives Smith D, Burges: Gowan, McLain

 

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 

proposing an amendment to the constitution of Arizona; amending article VIII, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona; relating to recall of public officers.

 

 

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Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring:

1.  Article VIII, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on proclamation of the Governor:

START_STATUTE1.  Officers subject to recall; petitioners

Section 1.  Every public officer in the state of Arizona, holding an elective office, either by election or appointment, is subject to recall from such office by the those qualified electors of who voted in the most recent election to fill that public office and who are qualified electors from the electoral district from which candidates are elected to such office.  Such electoral district may include the whole state.  Officers of a political committee organizing a recall against a public officer shall also be residents of that officer's electoral district.  Such number of said electors as shall equal twenty‑five per centum cent of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all of the candidates for the office held by such officer, may by petition, which shall be known as a recall petition, demand his recall. END_STATUTE

2.  The Secretary of State shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona.