THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY ROCK, BEAR, BOYD, GROVE, METCALFE AND VULAKOVICH, DECEMBER 5, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 5, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 25 (Elections) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, providing for restrictions on nomination petitions.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Title 25 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes is amended by adding sections to read:

§ 1404.1.  Nomination petition.

The department and any commission shall not provide any copy

of any nomination petition that contains the photostatic,

digitized or electronic signature of any registered elector to

any individual or entity or business enterprise for any purpose

apart from those needs which are associated with valid petition

examinations or challenges. All recipients of nomination

petition copies shall sign an affidavit which states that the

affiant will only use nomination petition copies as follows:

(1)  for election-related purposes;

(2)  shall not use, buy or sell nomination petition

copies for nonelectoral purposes; and

(3)  shall not remove nomination petition copies from any

official government building where examinations of the same

are conducted.

§ 1404.2.  Enforcement and penalties.

It shall be a misdemeanor of the second degree if any person,

entity or other organization is found to be in violation of

section 1404.1 (relating to nomination petition), with fines not

to exceed $5,000 for each infraction and imprisonment not to

exceed two years for all violations cumulatively. Warnings of

the same shall be printed appropriately on each nomination

petition form before circulation among nomination electors.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.