HB 231 — An Act amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, in nomination of candidates, further providing for petition may consist of several sheets and statement of circulator.

PRINTER'S NO.   184

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 231
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, PIELLI, PROBST, GUENST, HOWARD, MALAGARI,
        FREEMAN, DONAHUE, HILL-EVANS, OTTEN, SAMUELSON, O'MARA,
        CERRATO AND GREEN, JANUARY 22, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 22, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
 2      "An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
 3      special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
 4      primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
 5      and defining membership of county boards of elections;
 6      imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
 7      courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
 8      imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
 9      revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
10      repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
11      elections," in nomination of candidates, further providing
12      for petition may consist of several sheets and statement of
13      circulator.
14      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
15   hereby enacts as follows:
16      Section 1.    Section 909 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
17   No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, is amended to
18   read:
19      Section 909.    Petition May Consist of Several Sheets;
20   Statement of Circulator.--Said nomination petition may be on one
21   or more sheets, and different sheets must be used for signers
22   resident in different counties. If more than one sheet is used,
23   they shall be bound together when offered for filing if they are
 1   intended to constitute one petition, and each sheet shall be
 2   numbered consecutively beginning with number one, at the foot of
 3   each page. In cases of petitions for delegate or alternate
 4   delegate to National conventions, each sheet shall contain a
 5   notation indicating the presidential candidate to whom he is
 6   committed or the term "uncommitted." Each sheet shall have
 7   appended thereto the statement of the circulator of each sheet,
 8   setting forth, subject to the penalties of 18 Pa.C.S. § 4904
 9   (relating to unsworn falsification to authorities)--(a) that he
10   or she is a qualified elector of the Commonwealth, who is duly
11   registered and enrolled as a member of the party designated in
12   said petition, unless said petition relates to the nomination of
13   a candidate for a school district in a district where that
14   office is elective, for a court of common pleas, for the
15   Philadelphia Municipal Court or for justice of the peace, in
16   which event the circulator need not be a duly registered and
17   enrolled member of the designated party; (b) his residence,
18   giving city, borough or township, with street and number, if
19   any; (c) that the signers thereto signed with full knowledge of
20   the contents of the petition; (d) that their respective
21   residences are correctly stated therein; (e) that they all
22   reside in the county named in the statement; (f) that each
23   signed on the date set opposite his name; and (g) that, to the
24   best of the circulator's knowledge and belief, the signers are
25   qualified electors and duly registered and enrolled members of
26   the designated party of the State, or of the political district,
27   as the case may be.
28      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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