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Committee narrows special-election language, removes prescriptive waiver of primaries and approves emergency special-elections bill
Summary
Senate Bill 262, an emergency departmental bill that clarifies timing, administration and charter conflicts for county special elections, was amended to remove a provision authorizing county councils to bypass primaries and passed 10–1.
The Senate Education, Energy and the Environment Committee passed Senate Bill 262 as amended, an emergency departmental election bill that revises timelines and administrative rules governing special elections to fill vacancies in county councils or county executive offices.
Stacy, committee staff, summarized the bill: it makes changes to the timing of special elections, authorizes a county council to direct that a vacancy be filled by a single special general election (no primary), addresses conflicts between county charters and state election law, and clarifies administration of…
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