PRINTER'S NO. 2300
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1707
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, OTTEN, ULLMAN, MERSKI, MALAGARI, HILL-
EVANS, WEBSTER, McNEILL, DeLUCA, SCHWEYER, WILLIAMS,
HENNESSEY AND HOWARD, JULY 16, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JULY 16, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
"An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
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 petition may consist of several sheets and affidavit of
circulator.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 909 of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333,
No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, is amended to
read:
Section 909. Petition May Consist of Several Sheets;
Affidavit of Circulator.--Said nomination petition may be on one
or more sheets, and different sheets must be used for signers
resident in different counties. If more than one sheet is used,
they shall be bound together when offered for filing if they are
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intended to constitute one petition, and each sheet shall be
numbered consecutively beginning with number one, at the foot of
each page. In cases of petitions for delegate or alternate
delegate to National conventions, each sheet shall contain a
notation indicating the presidential candidate to whom he is
committed or the term "uncommitted." Each sheet shall have
appended thereto the affidavit of the circulator of each sheet,
setting forth--(a) that he or she is a qualified elector duly
registered and enrolled as a member of the designated party of
the State, or of the political district, as the case may be,
referred to in said petition, unless said petition relates to
the nomination of a candidate for a school director in a
district where that office is elective, a court of common pleas,
for the Philadelphia Municipal Court or for the Traffic Court of
Philadelphia or for justice of the peace, in which event the
circulator need not be a duly registered and enrolled member of
the designated party; (b) his residence, giving city, borough or
township, with street and number, if any; (c) that the signers
thereto signed with full knowledge of the contents of the
petition; (d) that their respective residences are correctly
stated therein; (e) that they all reside in the county named in
the affidavit; (f) that each signed on the date set opposite his
name; and (g) that, to the best of affiant's knowledge and
belief, the signers are qualified electors and duly registered
and enrolled members of the designated party of the State, or of
the political district, as the case may be.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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