HB3303 HFAT Summers #1 2-24

Casto  3264

Delegate Summers moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:  

Eng. House Bill 3303—A Bill to amend and reenact §3-5-11 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend and reenact §3-5-19 of said code, all relating to clarifying the process of filling vacancies on ballots; authorizing the county executive committee or chair of an intra-county delegate or senatorial district to fill vacancy on primary election ballot; prohibiting Secretary of State from refusing certification of candidates appointed to an intra-county delegate or senatorial district by the county executive committee for that district by certain deadline for placement on 2022 primary election ballot; authorizing the county executive committee or chair of an intra-county delegate senatorial district to fill vacancy on general election ballot; providing that no appointment to an unfilled vacancy may be made after a primary election, save in the case of the subsequent death, withdrawal, incapacity, or disqualification of a candidate; and making amendments retrospective to January 30, 2022.

Adopted

Rejected