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Committee sends bill to floor requiring party label on campaign materials
Summary
Representative Healy presented House Bill 359 to require candidates to include party affiliation on campaign materials (with specified exceptions); the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Representative Healy, R-District 15, introduced House Bill 359, which would require candidates to display their party affiliation on campaign materials such as signs and mailers. Healy said the measure is intended to provide voters with clear information about a candidate’s party on commonly used campaign materials; the bill excludes smaller items such as buttons, bumper stickers and unpaid social-media posts.
Healy said the requirement would apply to printed campaign materials and specified that a party name should be written out (for example, "Republican," "Democrat," "Independent"). When Representative Pohanka joked about a party symbol, Healy responded that the bill calls for spelled-out party names rather than symbols.
There was no public testimony. Representative Crane moved that the committee send House Bill 359 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation; the motion carried on a voice vote.
Votes at a glance: motion to send House Bill 359 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation — moved by Representative Crane; carried by voice vote.
