Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 335

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Relating to: elections to a lake protection and rehabilitation district board of commissioners.

Elections Elections — Contested elections Lakes Municipality — Officers Municipality — Taxation

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a lake protection and rehabilitation district (district) may

be created to carry out a program of lake protection and rehabilitation. Under

current law, a district is governed by a board of governors, elected by secret ballot at

an annual meeting for staggered three-year terms. This bill establishes certain

procedures for such an election, including requiring ballots to be counted and results

read immediately at the annual meeting, allowing any candidate or a designee to be

present to observe the counting of ballots, and authorizing a runner-up candidate

to request a recount if the difference in votes cast for the top two candidates is fewer

than ten. If a recount is requested, the bill requires the board secretary to note the

request in meeting minutes and requires that the ballots be enclosed in a container

sealed with a tamper-evident seal and delivered to the clerk of the most populous

town, village, or city in the district. The bill requires that clerk to conduct a recount

within two weeks of receiving the ballots, after notifying candidates of the time and

location, and allows any candidate or a designee to be present to observe such a

recount.

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Elections, Ethics and Rural Issues, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 31, 2019 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Elections, Ethics and Rural Issues, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Oct 31, 2019 official source full page