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Committee cleans up election notices and filing rules; sponsor’s HB479 on voter‑ID opt‑in not taken up
Summary
Lawmakers adopted technical changes to centralize election notices, align filing periods and codify ballot‑neutrality in House Bill 361; Representative Burton’s election‑code bill (HB479) was presented earlier but not considered further after the committee moved the agenda.
The Senate Government Operations Committee moved a package of election-law cleanup items and procedural clarifications forward and adopted a technical amendment to House Bill 361.
Representative Shepherd described HB361 as a consolidation of notice and filing requirements intended to make clerks’ administrative tasks simpler and more consistent. Ryan Cowley, director of elections in the lieutenant…
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