Bill Text: PA HB2512 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for election of school directors.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-26 - Referred to EDUCATION [HB2512 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2512-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3839
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2512 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY TRUITT, CLYMER, EVERETT, GINGRICH, HORNAMAN AND PAYTON, JUNE 26, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JUNE 26, 2012
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," further providing for election of
school directors.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 301 of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended to
read:
Section 301. Board of Directors; Election or Appointment.--
(a) The public school system of the Commonwealth shall be
administered by a board of school directors, to be elected or
appointed, as hereinafter provided. At each election of school
directors, each qualified voter shall be entitled to cast one
vote for each school director to be elected. Any system
providing for cumulative voting for the office of school
director is hereby abolished.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), school directors
shall be elected in accordance with the act of June 3, 1937
(P.L.1333, No.320), known as the "Pennsylvania Election Code."
(c) A primary election for school director nominations shall
not be held for the 2013 municipal elections and thereafter.
School directors shall be elected at the November municipal
election beginning in 2013.
(d) Notwithstanding section 951 of the "Pennsylvania
Election Code," nomination papers for the office of school
director shall be filed in the same manner as nominations of
candidates by political bodies or independent candidates, as
provided by the "Pennsylvania Election Code," without regard to
political party membership. A circulator of a nomination paper
must reside in the same school district referred to in the
nomination paper and be registered as a member of a political
party or as nonaffiliated with a political party. Nomination
papers for the office of school director must include the
signatures of a minimum number of qualified electors, without
regard to political party affiliation as follows:
(1) two hundred fifty for a school district of the first
class;
(2) two hundred for a school district of the first class A;
(3) one hundred for a school district of the second class;
(4) fifty for a school district of the third class; and
(5) twenty-five for a school district of the fourth class.
(e) A candidate's political party affiliation shall be
printed on the ballot for election.
Section 2. Section 302.1(d) of the act, added December 19,
1975 (P.L.511, No.150), is amended to read:
Section 302.1. School Board in First Class A School
Districts; Apportionment of Seats, and Numbers, Terms, and
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Methods for Election of School Directors in First Class A School
Districts.--* * *
[(d) Nomination and Elections of School Directors. School
directors shall be nominated and elected in accordance with the
act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the
"Pennsylvania Election Code."]
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Section 3. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar
as they are inconsistent with this act.
Section 4. This act shall take effect as follows:
(1) The amendment of section 301 of the act shall take
effect December 31, 2012.
(2) The remainder of this act shall take effect in 60
days.
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