AZ HB2317

Requires cities and towns to print party designations for all candidates for mayor and city council on ballots, making these partisan offices.

Restricts voting in city and town council elections by district to only qualified electors of that specific district in primary, general, runoff, or other elections.

Removes language prohibiting partisan designation from school district ballots, allowing party affiliation to be displayed for school board candidates.

Changes fire district and water conservation district candidate ballots to include party designation instead of prohibiting it.

Adds party designation requirement for special health care district candidates in counties with populations of 2 million or more persons; applies to all elections held on or after January 1, 2018.