Committee Bill No. 6065 Summary

• Allows political parties to use caucuses as an alternative method to nominate candidates to fill state legislative vacancies resulting from resignations or deaths, in addition to existing convention and primary methods.

• Defines a caucus as a meeting of enrolled party members at designated times and places for the purpose of making nominations to fill legislative vacancies.

• Requires party nominations for special elections to be certified to the Secretary of the State no later than the thirty-sixth day before the election, with failure to meet this deadline rendering the certification invalid.

• Prohibits primary elections for filling legislative vacancies and designates the candidate selected through the nomination process as the official party nominee.

• Exempts caucuses held for legislative vacancy nominations from State Elections Enforcement Commission audits and establishes that only enrolled party members may participate in such caucuses.