Bill Text: AZ SB1073 | 2023 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Precinct committeeman; vacancy; technical correction

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-01-23 - Senate read second time [SB1073 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2023-SB1073-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: precinct committeeman; vacancy; technical correction

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

 

 

 

SB 1073

 

Introduced by

Senator Borrelli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 16-821, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to political parties.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-821, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-821. County committee; vacancy in office of precinct committeeman

A. At the primary election, the members of a political party entitled to representation pursuant to section 16-804 residing in each precinct shall choose one of their number as a county precinct committeeman, and the members shall choose one additional precinct committeeman for each one hundred twenty-five voters or major fraction thereof registered in the party in the precinct as reported pursuant to section 16-168, subsection G on January 2 of the year in which the general election is held. The whole number of precinct committeemen of a political party shall constitute the county committee of the party.

B. The board of supervisors, upon on the recommendation of the county chairman,  chairperson or the recommendation of a committee designated in the bylaws of the county committee for that purpose, shall determine when a vacancy exists in the office of precinct committeeman. If a vacancy exists, the vacancy shall be filled by the board of supervisors from a list of names submitted by the county chairman chairperson of the appropriate political party. Only a precinct committeeman elected at the primary election prior to the date of a state or county committee organizing meeting shall be permitted allowed to vote at such meeting. The criteria used to establish when a vacancy exists in the office of precinct committeeman shall be as established in section 38-291. END_STATUTE