STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

HOUSE BILL 2276	By:	Nollan

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to elections; amending 26 O.S. 2011, Section 1-103, which relates to runoff primary elections; bypassing runoff primary elections under certain circumstances; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     26 O.S. 2011, Section 1-103, is amended to read as follows:
Section 1-103.  If at any Primary Election no candidate for the nomination for office of any political party receives a majority of all votes cast for all candidates of such party for the office, no candidate shall be nominated by such party for the office, but the two candidates candidate receiving the highest number of votes at such election shall be placed on the official ballot as candidates the candidate for such nomination at a Runoff Primary Election to be held on the fourth Tuesday of August in the same year the General Election, unless three or more Runoff Primary Elections can be held at the same time as determined by the county election board.  No county, municipality or school district shall schedule an election on any date during the twenty (20) days immediately preceding the date of any such Runoff Primary Election.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

54-1-5863	LRB	01/12/13