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Committee unanimously reports bill to streamline filling local government vacancies
Summary
House Bill 16 51 would allow local governing bodies to accelerate or streamline procedures for filling vacancies—moving sooner to court of common pleas when deadlock or multiple vacancies prevent timely selection; the committee reported the bill unanimously by voice vote.
House Bill 16 51, sponsored by the Local Government Commission (presented to the committee by Chris Gazzi), would amend existing vacancy‑filling procedures for local governing bodies. Under current law, remaining governing members may fill a vacancy by majority vote; if they cannot, a vacancy committee convenes and, failing that, the…
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