Bill Title: In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in qualifications of electors, further providing for qualifications of electors at primaries; in party organization, further providing for only enrolled electors to vote at primaries or hold party offices; in nomination of candidates, further providing for candidates to be nominated and party officers to be elected at primaries and providing for procedure for unenrolled electors to cast primary ballots; in preparation for and conduct of primaries and elections, further providing for manner of applying to vote, persons entitled to vote, voter's certificates, entries to be made in district register, numbered lists of voters and challenges; in voting by qualified absentee electors, further providing for applications for official absentee ballots; in voting by qualified mail-in electors, further providing for applications for official mail-in ballots; in returns of primaries and elections, further providing for computation of returns by county board, certification and issuance of certificates of election; and, in penalties, further providing for election officers refusing to permit elector to vote in proper party at primaries and repealing provisions relating to elector voting ballot of wrong party at primary.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-10-17 - Laid on the table [HB979 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Jared Solomon [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-202	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Christopher Rabb [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-200	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Christina Sappey [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-158	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Maureen Madden [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-115	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michael Zabel [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-163	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative James Haddock [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-118	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Arvind Venkat [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Nancy Guenst [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-152	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Carol Hill-Evans [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-095	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Peter Schweyer [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-134	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tarik Khan [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-194	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Justin Fleming [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-105	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mary Isaacson [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-175	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jeanne McNeill [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-133	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Valerie Gaydos [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-044	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dan Frankel [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Melissa Cerrato [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-151	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Paul Friel [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Heather Boyd [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-163	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Christopher Pielli [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-156	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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