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Senate committee OKs bill to keep recall petitioners’ addresses, signatures off published notices
Summary
The Senate committee voted to pass SB 270 as amended to the Committee on Judiciary; the bill would require elections officials to withhold street addresses and signatures from the publicly published copy of a notice of intention to recall an elected official while maintaining those records with the elections office.
Senate Bill 270, authored by Senator Anna M. Ochoa Bogh, was moved out of the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments as amended and ordered to the Committee on Judiciary after a 5-0 vote.
The bill would change how recall notices are published: proponents would still file the full notice (including names, addresses and signatures) with the elections official and serve a copy on the targeted official, but the version printed in newspapers would omit signers’ street addresses and…
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