SB374 Alabama 2014 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Bill HightowerRepublican - Co-Sponsors
- Gerald O. DialDel MarshGreg J. ReedRusty GloverPhillip W. WilliamsClay ScofieldJ.T. Waggoner
- Session
- Regular Session 2014
- Title
- Legislature, elections, vacancy in office of senator or representative, Governor to fill vacancy if it occurs after the last day of third regular session in any quadrennium, Sec. 17-15-1 am'd.
- Description
Existing law provides the procedure for the scheduling of a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of senator or representative in the Legislature.
This bill would provide that the Governor shall fill a vacancy in the office of senator or representative in the Legislature if the vacancy occurs after the last day of the third regular session in any quadrennium of the Legislature, provide the procedure for filling the vacancy, and provide that the effective date would be contingent on the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, which would allow the Governor to appoint a person to fill a vacancy in the office of senator or representative in the Legislature pursuant to this act.
- Subjects
- Legislature
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature