Bill No.: SF0007                  Drafter:  LGC

 

LSO No.:  12LSO-0128              Effective Date:  March 6, 2012

 

Enrolled Act No.:  SEA0002

 

Chapter No.:       CH0009

 

Prime Sponsor:     Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

 

Catch Title:       Election districts-revisions.

 

Subject:           Provides for election of precinct committeemen and committeewomen in legislative redistricting years.

 

Summary/Major Elements:

 

·         Under current law, each political party in each precinct shall elect one precinct committeeman and one precinct committeewoman for each two hundred fifty votes cast in an election district for the party’s candidate for congress in the last general election.

 

·         This act provides that in a legislative redistricting year, each political party in each precinct shall elect one precinct committeeman and one precinct committeewoman for each two hundred fifty voters registered in that political party at the time election districts are adopted.

 

·         This act changes the date county commissioners must divide the county into election districts from April to May of each general election year.