Fifty-second Legislature                                                Judiciary

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1516

 

PROPOSED AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1516

(Reference to printed bill)

 


Page 6, after line 45, insert:

"Sec. 6.  Section 16-312, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-312.  Filing of nomination papers for write‑in candidates

A.  Any person desiring to become a write‑in candidate for an elective office in any election shall file a nomination paper, signed by the candidate, giving the person's actual residence address or description of place of residence and post office address, age, length of residence in the state and date of birth.

B.  A write‑in candidate shall file the nomination paper not later than 5:00 p.m. on the fortieth day before the election, except that:

1.  A candidate running as a write‑in candidate as provided in section 16‑343, subsection D shall file the nomination paper not later than 5:00 p.m. on the fifth day before the election.

2.  A candidate running as a write-in candidate for an election that may be canceled pursuant to section  16‑410 shall file the nomination paper not later than 5:00 p.m. on the seventy-sixth day before the election.

C.  The write‑in filing procedure shall be in the same manner as prescribed in section 16‑311.  Any person who does not file a timely nomination paper shall not be counted in the tally of ballots.  The filing officer shall not accept the nomination paper of a candidate for state or local office unless the candidate provides or has provided both of the following:

1.  A political committee statement of organization or the five hundred dollar threshold exemption statement for that office.

2.  the financial disclosure statement as prescribed for candidates for that office.

D.  Except in cases where the liability is being appealed, the filing officer shall not accept the nomination paper of a write-in candidate for state or local office if the person is liable for an aggregation of one thousand dollars or more in fines, penalties, late fees or administrative or civil judgments, including any interest or costs, in any combination, that have not been fully satisfied at the time of the attempted filing of the nomination paper and the liability arose from failure to comply with or enforcement of chapter 6 of this title.

E.  The secretary of state shall notify the various boards of supervisors as to write‑in candidates filing with the secretary of state's office.  The county school superintendent shall notify the appropriate board of supervisors as to write‑in candidates filing with the superintendent's office.  The board of supervisors shall notify the appropriate election board inspector of all candidates who have properly filed such statements.  In the case of a city or town election, the city or town clerk shall notify the appropriate election board inspector of candidates properly filed.  No other write‑ins shall be counted.  The election board inspector shall post the notice of official write‑in candidates in a conspicuous location within the polling place.

F.  Except as provided in section 16‑343, subsection E, a candidate may not file pursuant to this section if any of the following applies:

1.  For a candidate in the general election, the candidate ran in the immediately preceding primary election and failed to be nominated to the office sought in the current election.

2.  For a candidate in the general election, the candidate filed a nomination petition for the immediately preceding primary election for the office sought and failed to provide a sufficient number of valid petition signatures as prescribed by section 16‑322.

3.  For a candidate in the primary election, the candidate filed a nomination petition for the current primary election for the office sought and failed to provide a sufficient number of valid petition signatures as prescribed by section 16‑322.

4.  For a candidate in the general election, the candidate filed a nomination petition for nomination other than by primary for the office sought and failed to provide a sufficient number of valid petition signatures as prescribed by section 16‑341.

G.  A person who files a nomination paper pursuant to this section for the office of president of the United States shall designate in writing to the secretary of state at the time of filing the name of the candidate's vice‑presidential running mate, the names of presidential electors who will represent that candidate and a statement signed by the vice‑presidential running mate and designated presidential electors that indicates their consent to be designated.  A nomination paper for each presidential elector designated shall be filed with the candidate's nomination paper.  The number of presidential electors shall equal the number of United States senators and representatives in Congress from this state."END_STATUTE

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Page 24, between lines 5 and 6, insert:

"C.  In addition to the disclosure required pursuant to subsections A and B of this section, for a political action committee that makes an EXPENDITURE for an advertisement or a fund‑raising solicitation relating to a statewide statutory ballot measure, the literature or advertisement shall also include the following statement:  "notice:  pursuant to Proposition 105 (1998), this measure cannot be changed in the future if approved on the ballot except by a three‑fourths vote of the legislature and if the change furthers the purpose of the original ballot measure or except by referring the change to the ballot.""

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Page 29, line 9, strike "16-916,"

Line 10, strike "subsection A" insert "16-913"

Page 31, lines 5 and 6, strike "or district"

Page 39, line 41, after the period strike remainder of line

Page 39, strike lines 42 and 43

Line 44, strike "statement must be filed before valid signatures can be collected.""

Page 41, between lines 14 and 15, insert:

"Sec. 21.  Section 19-121.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE19-121.01.  Secretary of state; removal of petition and ineligible signatures; facsimile sheets; random sample; presumption

A.  Within twenty days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and other legal holidays, of after the date of filing of an initiative or referendum petition and issuance of the receipt, the secretary of state shall:

1.  Remove the following:

(a)  Those sheets not attached to a copy of the complete title and text of the measure as prescribed in this chapter.

(b)  The copy of the title and text from the remaining petition sheets.

(c)  Those sheets not bearing the correct petition serial number in the lower right‑hand corner of each side.

(d)  Those sheets containing a circulator's affidavit that is not completed or signed or that has been modified.

(e)  Those sheets on which the affidavit of the circulator is not notarized, the notary's signature is missing, the notary's commission has expired or the notary's seal is not affixed.

(f)  Those sheets on which the signatures of the circulator or the notary are dated earlier than the dates on which the electors signed the face of the petition sheet.

(g)  Those sheets that are circulated by a circulator who is prohibited from participating in any election, initiative, referendum or recall campaign pursuant to section 19‑119.01.

(h)  Those sheets on which the circulator is required to be registered with the secretary of state pursuant to section 19‑118 and the circulator is not properly registered at the time the petitions were circulated.

2.  After completing the steps in paragraph 1 of this subsection, review each sheet to determine the county of the majority of the signers and shall:

(a)  Place a three or four letter abbreviation designating that county in the upper right‑hand corner of the face of the petition.

(b)  Remove all signatures of those not in the county of the majority on each sheet by marking an "SS" in red ink in the margin to the right of the signature line.

(c)  Cause all signature sheets to be grouped together by county of registration of the majority of those signing and attach them to one or more copies of the title and text of the measure.  If the sheets are too bulky for convenient grouping by the secretary of state in one volume by county, they may be bound in two or more volumes with those in each volume attached to a single printed copy of the measure.  The remaining detached copies of the title and text of the measure shall be delivered to the applicant.

3.  After completing the steps in paragraph 2 of this subsection, remove the following signatures that are not eligible for verification by marking an "SS" in red ink in the margin to the right of the signature line:

(a)  If the signature of the qualified elector is missing.

(b)  If the residence address or the description of residence location is missing.

(c)  If the date on which the petitioner signed is missing, if the date on which the petitioner signed the petition is before the date that the statement of organization was filed for serial number was assigned to the political committee that is filing the petition or if the date on which the petitioner signed the petition is after the date on which the affidavit was completed by the circulator and notarized.

(d)  Signatures in excess of the fifteen signatures permitted per petition.

(e)  Signatures withdrawn pursuant to section 19‑113.

(f)  Signatures for which the secretary of state determines that the petition circulator has printed the elector's first and last names or other information in violation of section 19‑112.

4.  After the removal of petition sheets and signatures, count the number of signatures for verification on the remaining petition sheets and note that number in the upper right‑hand corner of the face of each petition sheet immediately above the county designation.

5.  Number the remaining petition sheets that were not previously removed and that contain signatures eligible for verification in consecutive order on the front side of each petition sheet in the upper left‑hand corner.

6.  Count all remaining petition sheets and signatures not previously removed and issue a receipt to the applicant of this total number eligible for verification.

B.  If the total number of signatures for verification as determined pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 6 of this section equals or exceeds the constitutional minimum, the secretary of state, during the same twenty day period provided in subsection A of this section, the secretary of state shall select, at random, five percent of the total signatures eligible for verification by the county recorders of the counties in which the persons signing the petition claim to be qualified electors.  The random sample of signatures to be verified shall be drawn in such a manner that every signature eligible for verification has an equal chance of being included in the sample.  The random sample produced shall identify each signature selected by petition page and line number.  The signatures selected shall be marked according to the following procedure:

1.  Using red ink, mark the selected signature by circling the line number and drawing a line from the base of the circle extending into the left margin.

2.  If a signature line selected for the random sample is found to be blank or was removed from the verification process pursuant to subsection A of this section and is marked with an "SS", then the next line down, even if that requires going to the next petition sheet in sequence, on which an eligible signature appears shall be selected as a substitute if that line has not already been selected for the random sample.  If the next eligible line is already being used in the random sample, the secretary of state shall proceed back up the page from the signature line originally selected for the random sample to the next previous signature line eligible for verification. If that line is already being used in the random sample, the secretary of state shall continue moving down the page or to the next page from the line originally selected for the random sample and shall select the next eligible signature as its substitute for the random sample.  The secretary of state shall use this process of alternately moving forward and backward until a signature eligible for verification and not already included in the random sample can be selected and substituted.

C.  After the selection of the random sample and the marking of the signatures selected on the original petition sheets pursuant to subsection B of this section, the secretary of state shall reproduce a facsimile of the front of each signature sheet on which a signature included in the random sample appears.  The secretary of state shall clearly identify those signatures marked for verification by color highlighting or other similar method and shall transmit by personal delivery or certified mail to each county recorder a facsimile sheet of each signature sheet on which a signature appears of any individual who claims to be a qualified elector of that county and whose signature was selected for verification as part of the random sample.

D.  The secretary of state shall presume that the date noted on the petition for a petitioner's signature is the date on which the petitioner signed the petition, and any person seeking to establish a different date for the signature bears the burden of proof in overcoming the presumption.

E.  The secretary of state shall retain in custody all signature sheets removed pursuant to this section except as otherwise prescribed in this title. END_STATUTE

Sec. 22.  Section 19-123, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE19-123.  Publicity pamphlet; printing; distribution; public hearings

A.  When the secretary of state is ordered by the legislature, or by petition under the initiative and referendum provisions of the constitution, to submit to the people a measure or proposed amendment to the constitution, the secretary of state shall cause to be printed, at the expense of the state, except as otherwise provided in this article, a publicity pamphlet, which shall contain:

1.  A true copy of the title and text of the measure or proposed amendment.  Such text shall indicate material deleted, if any, by printing such material with a line drawn through the center of the letters of such material and shall indicate material added or new material by printing the letters of such material in capital letters.

2.  The form in which the measure or proposed amendment will appear on the ballot, the official title, the descriptive title prepared by the secretary of state and the number by which it will be designated.

3.  The arguments for and against the measure or amendment.

4.  For any measure or proposed amendment, a legislative council analysis of the ballot proposal as prescribed by section 19‑124.

5.  The report of the commission on judicial performance review for any justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals and judges of the superior court who are subject to retention.

6.  The summary of a fiscal impact statement prepared by the joint legislative budget committee staff pursuant to subsection D of this section.

7.  Immediately below the legislative council analysis, for any statutory measure, the following statement in bold-faced type:  "Notice:  pursuant to Proposition 105 (1998), this measure cannot be changed in the future if approved on the ballot except by a three-fourths vote of the legislature and if the change furthers the purpose of the original ballot measure or except by referring the change to the ballot."

B.  The secretary of state shall mail one copy of the publicity pamphlet to every household that contains a registered voter.  The mailings may be made over a period of days but shall be mailed in order to be delivered to households before the earliest date for receipt by registered voters of any requested early ballots for the general election.

C.  Sample ballots for both the primary and general elections shall include a statement that information on how to obtain a publicity pamphlet for the general election ballot propositions is available by calling the secretary of state.  The statement shall include a telephone number and mailing address of the secretary of state.

D.  On certification of an initiative measure as qualified for the ballot, the secretary of state shall hold or cause to be held at least three public meetings on the ballot measure.  Hearings shall be held in at least three different counties and shall be held before the date of the election on the measure.  The hearings shall provide an opportunity for proponents, opponents and the general public to provide testimony and request information.  Hearings may be scheduled to include more than one qualified ballot measure and shall include a fiscal impact presentation on the measure by the joint legislative budget committee staff.  The joint legislative budget committee staff shall prepare a summary of the fiscal impact for each ballot measure, not to exceed three hundred words, for publication in the publicity pamphlet.END_STATUTE

Sec. 23.  Section 19-202, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE19-202.  Recall petition; limitations; subsequent petition

A.  A recall petition shall not be circulated against any officer until he the officer has held office for six months, except that a petition may be filed against a member of the legislature at any time after five days from the beginning of the first session after his the member's election.  The commencement of a subsequent term in the same office does not renew the six month period delaying the circulation of a recall petition.

B.  After one recall petition and election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same officer during the term for which he the officer was elected unless the petitioners signing the petition first, at the time of application for the subsequent recall petition, pay into the public treasury from which such election expenses were paid all expenses of the preceding election.

C.  Signatures obtained on recall petitions by a committee or any of its officers, agents, employees or members before the filing of the committee's statement of organization are void and shall not be counted in determining the legal sufficiency of the petition."END_STATUTE

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ADAM DRIGGS

 

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