Bill Text: WV HB4055 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Secretary of State, rule relating to procedures for handling ballots and counting write-in votes in counties using optical scan ballots

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-16 - Reported in Com. Sub. for H. B. 4079 [HB4055 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB4055-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2018 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4055

By Delegates Sobonya and Frich

 [Introduced January 15, 2018; Referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to procedures for handling ballots and counting write-in votes in counties using optical scan ballots.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Secretary of State.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2017, authorized under the authority of §3-1A-6 of this code, modified by the Secretary of State to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 12, 2017, relating to the Secretary of State (procedures for handling ballots and counting write-in votes in counties using optical scan ballots, 153 CSR 27), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to procedures for handling ballots and counting write-in votes in counties using optical scan ballots.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.