HB 2365 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 19-101 to modify the petition form requirements for referendum petitions submitted to voters.

• Requires petition sheets to contain ten rows of signature boxes (reduced from fifteen) arranged in landscape format, approximately 8.5 by 11 inches, with specified labeled boxes for signature/date, name, address, city/town, zip code, and optional email address.

• Mandates that circulators indicate whether they are paid or volunteer by checking the appropriate box in capital letters and no less than 12-point bold type in the upper right corner of each petition sheet.

• Establishes that signatures obtained in violation of the paid/volunteer circulator designation requirements are void and cannot be counted toward petition sufficiency, though invalid signatures do not invalidate other properly obtained signatures.