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GA HB831
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/23/2014
Primary Sponsor
Wendell Willard
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AI Summary
- Expands Georgia's nonpartisan judicial election requirements to include judges of probate court, chief magistrate judges, and magistrate judges in counties where such magistrates are elected, adding them to the existing nonpartisan process for superior court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court races
- Requires that municipal judges, when elected under a municipal charter, must be elected on a nonpartisan basis
- Prohibits candidates for these newly covered judicial offices from being nominated by a political party, political body petition, or as independent candidates; they must qualify and appear on the nonpartisan portion of the ballot
- Nonpartisan judicial elections are held and conducted jointly with the general primary in even-numbered years, following procedures that conform as nearly as practicable to general election procedures
- Becomes effective immediately upon approval by the Governor or upon becoming law without such approval
Legislative Description
Elections; nonpartisan election of judges of probate court and chief magistrates; provide
Last Action
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
3/3/2014
Full Bill Text
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