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IN HB1621
Bill
Status
1/23/2017
Primary Sponsor
Mike Speedy
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AI Summary
HB 1621 Summary
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Precinct committeemen are elected at primary elections in each even-numbered year instead of presidential election years only.
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Precinct committeeman terms are reduced from four years to two years, with first election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May 2018.
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Precinct committeemen and vice committeemen exercising proxy authority must be entitled to vote for the office for which a successor is being selected in order to participate in vacancy-filling caucuses.
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Repeals the statute providing for election of Indiana Republican Party precinct committeemen at presidential election year primaries, making all parties subject to the same two-year election cycle.
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Effective upon passage with emergency declaration.
Legislative Description
Precinct committeemen. Provides that precinct committeemen are elected at the time of the primary election in each even-numbered year. Provides that the term of a precinct committeeman is two years instead of four years. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entitled to vote for the office for which a successor is to be selected in the caucus. Repeals a statute providing for the election of precinct committeemen of the Indiana Republican Party
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
1/23/2017