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Committee approves bill to clarify vacancy appointments, removes conflicting judge-appointment language
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee voted to approve House Bill 176, clarifying how partisan vacancies are filled and removing conflicting statute language that had allowed judicial appointment outside party-submitted nominees.
The House Appropriations Committee approved House Bill 176, which clarifies the statutory process for filling vacancies in partisan elected offices and removes a conflicting provision that allowed a judge to appoint any qualified elector rather than requiring appointment from party-submitted nominees.
Representative Laurie Bratton, sponsor of the bill, told the committee the legislation removes conflicting language and provides a default path when the entity charged with appointing a vacancy does not act within the statutory timeframe. Under the bill as amended, if a vacancy is not filled by the governor or by a board of county commissioners as required, the relevant State or County Central Committee will fill the vacancy, or—if the vacating office…
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