SB 260

This bill permits the annual meeting of a common or union high school district

or the school board of a school district to adopt a resolution to reduce the number of

signatures required on nomination papers submitted by candidates for school

district officer. Current law requires candidates for an office that is filled at the

spring election, including candidates for school board officer of some school districts,

to submit nomination papers signed by a certain number of electors in order to be

eligible to be placed on the ballot. Currently, a candidate for school district officer

in a school district that contains any portion of a second class city must submit

nomination papers signed by not less than 100 nor more than 200 electors.

This bill permits the number of signatures that must be obtained to be reduced

by resolution to not less than 20 and not more than 100 if the school district territory

lying within the second class city or cities is less than or equal to 10 percent of the

school district's territory. Once the territory lying within the second class city or

cities is more than 10 percent of the school district's territory, the number of

signatures required returns to not less than 100 nor more than 200.

Also under the bill, the requirement of a candidate for school district officer to

obtain between 100 and 200 signatures first applies in the second spring election that

follows the event that causes a school district to contain territory lying within a

second class city.