Bill Text: MS HB467 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: County school board members; require to declare party affiliation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [HB467 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-HB467-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Education
By: Representative Moore
House Bill 467
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-5-9, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE CANDIDATES FOR THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TO DECLARE THE POLITICAL PARTY WITH WHICH THEY ARE AFFILIATED UPON PETITION OF CANDIDACY FOR SUCH OFFICE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 37-5-9, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-5-9. (1) The
name of any qualified elector who is a candidate for the county board of
education and the political party with which the candidate is affiliated
shall be placed on the ballot used in the general elections by the county
election commissioners, provided that the candidate files with the county
election commissioners, not more than ninety (90) days and not less than sixty
(60) days * * * before
the date of * * * the
general election, a petition of nomination signed by not less than fifty (50)
qualified electors of the county residing within each supervisors district. The
petition of nomination must include the name of the political party with which
the candidate is affiliated. Where there are * * * fewer than one hundred (100)
qualified electors in * * * the supervisors district, it shall only be required that * * *
the petition of nomination
be signed by at least twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of * * *
that supervisors
district. The candidate in each supervisors district who receives the highest
number of votes cast in the district shall be declared elected.
(2) When any member
of the county board of education is to be elected from the county at large
under the provisions of this chapter, then the petition required by * * *
subsection
(1) of this section shall be signed by the required number of qualified
electors residing in any part of the county outside of the territory embraced
within a municipal separate school district or special municipal separate
school district. The candidate who receives the highest number of votes cast in
the election shall be declared elected.
(3) In no case shall any qualified elector residing within a municipal separate school district or special municipal separate school district be eligible to sign a petition of nomination for any candidate for the county board of education under any of the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.