SB 0710 Modifies provisions of election law
Sponsor:DePasco
LR Number:S3162.01I Fiscal Note:3162-01
Committee:Elections, Pensions and Veterans' Affairs
Last Action:02/17/98 - SCS Voted Do Pass S Elections, Pensions & Veterans' Journal page:
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Effective Date:August 28, 1998
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SCS/SB 710 - This act modifies provisions of election law.

This act shortens the deadline for the candidate's filing of financial interest statement from 25th to 21st day after the candidate's filing deadline. For most candidates, financial interest statements would be due sometime in mid-April.

Current law provides that March elections may be held on the first Tuesday in March for cities and counties having a charter and which have March primaries. The act changes the date to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March.

The act removes a current exception to a notification deadline for newly formed seven-director school district.

The act allows absentee voting for overseas voters, but only for federal and statewide candidates and statewide ballot issues (not for state senators and representatives).

The act changes who is to be notified in the event that the chairman of the nominating committee cannot be reached and prohibits the chairman of a nominating committee from certifying his or her own selection as candidate.

The act changes the deadline for the Secretary of State's notification to election authorities from "immediately" to "as soon as practicable" upon certification of names of candidates by party nominating committees.

The act also provides that the election judge enters voting date "in the record". Current law says that the voting date is entered "on the card."

This act establishes a means of providing notice, regarding initiative petitions filed, to designated public officials and agencies and to individuals upon request. Such notice also would be published in the Missouri Register and on the Secretary of State's World Wide Website. Notice would be made at the time of the filing of the petition, and at certification of the Official Ballot Title. Such notice also would include a statement indicating the right to provide comments under a public notice and comment process.

This act also allows citizens to challenge the petition form at the same time that the Official Ballot Title and Fiscal Note may be challenged (10 days after certification of the Official Ballot Title).
MARGARET J. TOALSON