Bill Amendment: AZ HB2497 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Judicial offices; petitions; electronic signatures
Status: 2024-04-10 - Chapter 148 [HB2497 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2024-HB2497-SENATE_-_Elections.html
Fifty-sixth Legislature Elections
Second Regular Session H.B. 2497
PROPOSED
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2497
(Reference to Bennett s/e Amendment 03/05/2024 at 03:38 PM)
Page 1, between lines 1 and 2, insert:
"Section 1. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 16-316, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-316. Secure online signature collection; candidate petitions; five dollar contributions; statewide and legislative candidates
A. Notwithstanding any other statute in this title, the secretary of state shall provide a system for qualified electors to sign a nomination petition and to sign and submit a citizens clean elections five dollar $5 contribution qualification form for a candidate by way of a secure internet portal. The system shall allow only those qualified electors who are eligible to sign a petition for a particular candidate to sign the petition and only those qualified electors who are eligible to give a qualifying contribution to that candidate to do so and shall provide a method for the qualified elector's identity to be properly verified. A candidate may choose to collect up to an amount equal to one hundred ten percent of the full number of required nomination petition signatures or up to an amount equal to one hundred ten percent of the full number of required contribution qualification forms, or both, by use of the online signature collection system prescribed by this section.
B. This section applies only to candidates for statewide and legislative offices.
Sec. 2. Section 16-318, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-318. Secure online signature collection; federal offices
A. Notwithstanding any other statute in this title, the secretary of state shall provide a system for qualified electors to sign a nomination petition for a candidate for the office of United States senator or representative in Congress by way of a secure internet portal. The system shall allow only those qualified electors who are eligible to sign a petition for a particular candidate to sign the petition and shall provide a method for the qualified elector's identity to be properly verified. A candidate may choose to collect up to one hundred ten percent of the full number of required nomination petition signatures by use of the online signature collection system prescribed by this section.
B. This section applies only to candidates for the office of United States senator or representative in Congress.
Renumber to conform
Page 1, line 12, after the third "TO" insert "one hundred ten percent of"
Between lines 18 and 19, insert:
Sec. 4. Requirements for enactment; three-fourths vote
Pursuant to article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, sections 16-316, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, is effective only on the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature."
Amend title to conform
