HB 2643 - Summary

• Allows a person other than the petition circulator to assist qualified electors who are physically unable to sign petitions, upon request of the elector.

• Requires the person providing assistance to state in writing on the petition that they assisted the elector, and to sign the statement with their name and address.

• Clarifies that only the Secretary of State's time-and-date-marked copy of a measure with identical title and text can be used for signature collection; signatures collected with any other copy are invalid.

• Requires the circulator's affidavit to state that signatures were collected "in the presence of" the circulator.

• Contains conditional enactment provisions that determine which version of the statute applies based on the outcome of referendum petition R-03-2014 regarding Laws 2013, chapter 209.