PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 460

PRINTER'S NO. 2589

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

444

Session of

2017

INTRODUCED BY GABLER, GILLEN, PHILLIPS-HILL, JAMES, MILLARD,

O'NEILL, WARD, WATSON, BOBACK AND FRITZ, FEBRUARY 10, 2017

AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

and defining membership of county boards of elections;

imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,

courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;

imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,

revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and

repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to

elections," in nomination of candidates, further providing

for MANNER OF SIGNING NOMINATION PETITIONS AND TIME OF

CIRCULATING, FOR number of signers required for nomination

petitions of candidates at primaries AND FOR NOMINATIONS BY

SECTION 1. SECTIONS 908, 912.1 AND 951(C) OF THE ACT OF JUNE

3, 1937 (P.L.1333, NO.320), KNOWN AS THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION

CODE, ARE AMENDED TO READ:

SECTION 908. MANNER OF SIGNING NOMINATION PETITIONS; TIME OF

CIRCULATING.--EACH SIGNER OF A NOMINATION PETITION SHALL SIGN

BUT ONE SUCH PETITION FOR EACH OFFICE TO BE FILLED, AND SHALL

QUALIFIED ELECTOR OF THE COUNTY THEREIN NAMED, AND IN CASE THE

NOMINATION IS NOT TO BE MADE OR CANDIDATES ARE NOT TO BE ELECTED

BY THE ELECTORS OF THE STATE AT LARGE, OF THE POLITICAL DISTRICT

THEREIN NAMED, IN WHICH THE NOMINATION IS TO BE MADE OR THE

ELECTION IS TO BE HELD. HE SHALL ADD HIS [RESIDENCE] ADDRESS

WHERE HE IS DULY REGISTERED AND ENROLLED, GIVING CITY, BOROUGH

OR TOWNSHIP, WITH STREET AND NUMBER, IF ANY, AND SHALL LEGIBLY

PRINT HIS NAME AND ADD THE DATE OF SIGNING, EXPRESSED IN WORDS

OR NUMBERS: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF THE SAID POLITICAL

DISTRICT NAMED IN THE PETITION LIES WHOLLY WITHIN ANY CITY,

BOROUGH OR TOWNSHIP, OR IS COEXTENSIVE WITH SAME, IT SHALL NOT

Section 912.1. Number of Signers Required for Nomination

Petitions of Candidates at Primaries.--Candidates for nomination

of offices as listed below shall present a nominating petition

containing at least as many valid signatures of registered and

enrolled members of the proper party as listed below:

(1) President of the United States: Two thousand.

(2) United States Senate: Two thousand.

(6) Auditor General: One thousand including at least one

hundred from each of at least five counties.

(7) Attorney General: One thousand including at least one

hundred from each of at least five counties.

(8) Justice of the Supreme Court: One thousand including at

least one hundred from each of at least five counties.

(9) Judge of the Superior Court: One thousand including at

least one hundred from each of at least five counties.

(10) Judge of the Commonwealth Court: One thousand including

at least one hundred from each of at least five counties.

(11) For any other office to be filled by the vote of the

(14) Representative in the General Assembly: Three hundred.

(15) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in counties of the first class at large: One thousand.

(16) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in counties of the second class at large: Five hundred.

(17) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in cities of the first class at large: One thousand.

(20) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in counties of the fourth class at large: Two hundred

fifty.

(21) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in cities of the second class at large: Two hundred

fifty.

(22) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in cities of the second class A at large: One hundred.

(23) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in cities of the third class at large: One hundred.

(24) Public or party offices to be filled by a vote of the

electors in counties of the eighth class at large: One hundred.

(28) Office of judge of any court of record other than a

Statewide court or a court in a county of the first or second

class: Two hundred fifty.

(29) District delegate or alternate district delegate to a

National party convention: Two hundred fifty.

(30) Member of State committee: One hundred.

(34) Inspector of elections: Five.

(35) School director: Ten .

(36) All other public and party offices: Ten.

SECTION 951. NOMINATIONS BY POLITICAL BODIES.--* * *

(C) EACH PERSON SIGNING A NOMINATION PAPER SHALL DECLARE

THEREIN THAT HE IS A QUALIFIED ELECTOR OF THE STATE OR DISTRICT,

AS THE CASE MAY BE, AND SHALL ADD TO HIS SIGNATURE HIS LEGIBLY

PRINTED NAME AND [RESIDENCE] ADDRESS WHERE HE IS DULY REGISTERED

AND ENROLLED, GIVING CITY, BOROUGH OR TOWNSHIP, WITH STREET AND

NUMBER, IF ANY, AND SHALL ALSO ADD THE DATE OF SIGNING,

EXPRESSED IN WORDS OR NUMBERS: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF SAID

THE SAME OFFICE, IN WHICH CASE HE MAY SIGN NOMINATION PAPERS FOR

AS MANY CANDIDATES FOR SUCH OFFICE AS, AND NO MORE THAN, HE

COULD VOTE FOR AT THE SUCCEEDING ELECTION. MORE THAN ONE

CANDIDATE MAY BE NOMINATED BY ONE NOMINATION PAPER AND

CANDIDATES FOR MORE THAN ONE OFFICE MAY BE NOMINATED BY ONE

NOMINATION PAPER: PROVIDED, THAT EACH POLITICAL BODY NOMINATING

DOES NOT NOMINATE MORE CANDIDATES THAN THERE ARE OFFICES TO BE