Bill Text: PA HB2331 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In nomination of candidates, further providing for affidavits of candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 22-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-16 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB2331 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2331-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3366
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2331 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY METCALFE, BAKER, BENNINGHOFF, CREIGHTON, GABLER, GEIST, HESS, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, M. KELLER, MILLER, MOUL, MURT, PHILLIPS, RAPP, READSHAW, ROAE, ROCK, ROHRER, SCHRODER, STEVENSON, SWANGER AND TALLMAN, MARCH 16, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 16, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
and defining membership of county boards of elections;
imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
elections," in nomination of candidates, further providing
for affidavits of candidates.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 910 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, amended May
12, 2006 (P.L.178, No.45), is amended to read:
Section 910. Affidavits of Candidates.--Each candidate for
any State, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township,
ward, school district, poor district, election district, party
office, party delegate or alternate, or for the office of
President of the United States, United States Senator or
Representative in Congress, shall file with his nomination
petition his affidavit stating--(a) his residence, with street
and number, if any, and his post-office address; (b) his
election district, giving city, borough, town or township; (c)
the name of the office for which he consents to be a candidate;
(d) that he is eligible for such office; (e) that he will not
knowingly violate any provision of this act, or of any law
regulating and limiting nomination and election expenses and
prohibiting corrupt practices in connection therewith; (f)
unless he is a candidate for judge of a court of common pleas,
the Philadelphia Municipal Court or the Traffic Court of
Philadelphia, or for the office of school director in a district
where that office is elective or for the office of justice of
the peace that he is not a candidate for nomination for the same
office of any party other than the one designated in such
petition; (g) if he is a candidate for a delegate, or alternate
delegate, member of State committee, National committee or party
officer, that he is a registered and enrolled member of the
designated party; (h) if he is a candidate for delegate or
alternate delegate the presidential candidate to whom he is
committed or the term "uncommitted"; (i) that he is aware of the
provisions of section 1626 of this act requiring pre-election
and post-election reporting of campaign contributions and
expenditures; and (j) that he is not a candidate for an office
which he already holds, the term of which is not set to expire
in the same year as the office subject to the affidavit. In
cases of petitions for delegate and alternate delegate to
National conventions, the candidate's affidavit shall state that
his signature to the delegate's statement, as hereinafter set
forth, if such statement is signed by said candidate, was
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affixed to the sheet or sheets of said petition prior to the
circulation of same. [In the case of a candidate for nomination
as President of the United States, it shall not be necessary for
such candidate to file the affidavit required in this section to
be filed by candidates, but the post-office address of such
candidate shall be stated in such nomination petition.] Each
candidate who submits an affidavit under this section, except
for a candidate for President of the United States, shall append
to the affidavit documentation that provides proof that the
candidate is a citizen of the United States, proof of the
candidate's age and proof that the candidate meets the
applicable residency requirements for the office sought. Each
candidate for President of the United States shall append to the
affidavit documentation that provides proof that the candidate
is a natural born citizen, proof of the candidate's age and
proof that the candidate meets the residency requirements for
President of the United States, as set forth in section 1 of
Article II of the Constitution of the United States.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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