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Committee advances bill extending bonding-election notice from 20 to 64 days
Summary
The Political Subdivision Committee voted 11-0 (2 absent) to give House Bill 1138 a due-pass recommendation to extend the minimum notice for bonding elections from 20 days to 64 days, aligning bonding-election timelines with other statutes and giving local officials more time to prepare.
House Bill 1138, which would lengthen the minimum public-notice period for bonding elections from 20 days to 64 days, was given a due-pass recommendation by the Political Subdivision Committee after brief discussion and an 11-0 voice vote with two members absent.
The change “brings the 20 days out to a 64 day,” state Representative Brandy Pyle of District 22 said in introducing the bill, adding that the amendment is intended to make the schedule “standard across the board.”
The bill would amend section…
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