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SB295 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 15, 2022
SB295 Alabama 2022 Session
Senate Bill
Expired
Current Status
Regular Session 2022
Session
5
Sponsors

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2022
Title
Campaign Finance, candidates, failure to timely file statement of appointing committee, forfeits qualification to run, Sec. 17-5-4 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, an individual seeking to run for office is required to file with the Secretary of State, within five days of becoming a candidate, a statement appointing his or her principal campaign committee.

This bill would require the certifying official or municipal city clerk, as appropriate, to disqualify the candidate from appearing on the ballot if he or she determines the candidate failed to timely file the statement appointing his or her principal campaign committee.

Subjects
Campaign Finances

Bill Actions

S

Indefinitely Postponed

S

Jones motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote

S

Third Reading Carried Over

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Bill Text

Votes

SBIR: Jones motion to Adopt Roll Call 592

March 15, 2022 Senate Passed
Yes 19
No 4
Absent 12

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature