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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 104

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Relating to: eligibility for local office following removal.

Public officers

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law provides procedures by which appointive and elective officials of

political subdivisions may be removed from office. Current law also provides that an

official who is removed from office is ineligible to fill the vacancy created by that

removal. This bill provides that an elective official of a political subdivision who is

removed from office for cause or who resigns during the pendency of a removal

proceeding is ineligible for the elective public office from which the official was

removed. An elective official who resigns during the pendency of a removal

proceeding may regain eligibility by demonstrating to the removing power that the

official would not have been removed for cause and did not resign for purposes of

impeding the removal proceeding.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Tomczyk (R)

13 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , Gundrum (R) , Gustafson (R) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , O'Connor (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Nov 10, 2023 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 Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Nov 10, 2023 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Mar 1, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Tomczyk and Ballweg; cosponsored by Representatives Spiros, Novak, Allen, Armstrong, Baldeh, Gundrum, Kitchens, Krug, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Ratcliff and Steffen

  2. Mar 1, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Elections and Consumer Protection

  3. Apr 13, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Ratcliff withdrawn as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 18, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  5. Apr 25, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Baldeh withdrawn as a cosponsor

  6. Jul 10, 2023 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Government Operations and rereferred to committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  7. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Tomczyk

  8. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  9. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  10. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  12. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  13. Jan 10, 2024 · Senate

    Representative Gustafson added as a cosponsor

  14. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1