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_-_Strike_Everything.html
Fifty-sixth Legislature Elections
Second Regular Session H.B. 2497
COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2497
(Reference to House engrossed bill)
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert:
"Section 1. Title 16, chapter 3, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 16-319, to read:
16-319. Secure online signature collection; candidate petitions; judicial 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 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 an amount equal to 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:
1. judicial offices that require nominating petitions under section 16-333.
2. The office of clerk of the superior court."
Amend title to conform
