Bill Text: AZ HB2508 | 2020 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Recalls; city elections; signatures required
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - House GOV Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (10-0-0-1-0-0) [HB2508 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2020-HB2508-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: recalls; city
elections; signatures required |
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State of
Arizona House of
Representatives Fifty-fourth
Legislature Second Regular
Session 2020 |
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HB 2508 |
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Introduced by Representatives Salman: Andrade, Blanc, Bolding, Cano, Chávez,
DeGrazia, Engel, Epstein, Fernandez, Friese, Gabaldón, Lieberman, Longdon,
Pawlik, Peten, Teller, Terán, Thorpe, Senator Mendez |
AN ACT
amending section
19-201, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to recall.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 19-201, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
19-201. Officers subject to recall; number of petitioners
A. Every public officer holding an elective office,
either by election, appointment or retention, is subject to recall from such
office by the qualified electors of the electoral district from which
candidates are elected to that office. Such electoral district may
include the whole state. A number of qualified electors equaling twenty‑five
per cent percent of the number of
votes cast at the last preceding general election for all the candidates for
the office held by the officer, even if the officer was not elected at that
election, divided by the number of offices that were being filled at that
election, by recall petition, may demand the officer's recall. For an officer elected at a nonpartisan
election, the last preceding general election is the last preceding election at
which the public officer who is the subject of the recall was declared elected.
B. In the case of a public officer holding office in a newly created division or district of an elective office, either by election or appointment, a number of qualified electors equaling twenty‑five per cent percent of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all those who were candidates for other divisions or districts of the same office held by the officer in that county or city divided by the number of offices that were being filled at that election, by recall petition, may demand the officer's recall.
C. If the elective officer to be recalled was
appointed to the office or was deemed elected after an election was canceled
due to the absence of opposing candidates as provided in section 15‑424,
15-1442, 16‑822, 48‑802, 48‑1012, 48‑1208, 48‑1404,
48‑1908, 48‑2010, 48‑2107 or 48‑2208, the recall
petition must be signed by the number of qualified electors that is equal to at
least ten per cent percent of the
number of active registered voters in the jurisdiction or district represented
by that elective officer as determined on the date of the last general
election.
