PRINTER'S NO. 156
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
188
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, D. WILLIAMS, FREEMAN, SCHLOSSBERG, HILL-
EVANS, BENHAM, PISCIOTTANO AND WEBSTER, JANUARY 21, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 21, 2021
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 statement 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, amended
October 31, 2019 (P.L.552, No.77), is amended to read:
Section 909. Petition May Consist of Several Sheets;
Statement 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 statement of the circulator of each sheet,
setting forth, subject to the penalties of 18 Pa.C.S. ยง 4904
(relating to unsworn falsification to authorities)--(a) that he
or she is a qualified elector of the Commonwealth, who is duly
registered and enrolled as a member of the party designated in
said petition, unless said petition relates to the nomination of
a candidate for a school district in a district where that
office is elective, a court of common pleas, for the
Philadelphia Municipal Court 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 statement; (f) that each
signed on the date set opposite his name; and (g) that, to the
best of the circulator'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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