STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5117

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator BEACH)

ADOPTED: JANUARY 14, 2025

      These floor amendments add a minimum signature requirement for nominating petitions for candidates to be voted for by the voters of a political party throughout a county or any county election district, by providing that in no case will the petition be signed by fewer than 150 of such voters. 

      These floor amendments also permit candidates to be voted for at the 2025 primary election to utilize petition forms for the collection of signatures published by the Secretary of State prior to the effective date of this bill, as long as the candidate complies with the provisions of this bill, and further provide that utilization of petition forms published by the Secretary of State in 2025 prior to the effective date of this bill will not constitute the basis for a petition challenge.

      These floor amendments also change the effective date from January 1 next following the date of enactment, to instead be effective immediately and retroactive to January 1, 2025.