Delaware Senate Bill 165 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: Introduced on July 15 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-07-15 - Assigned to Education Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

The purpose of this Act is to eliminate the potential for improper electioneering in schools being used as polling placed and to increase voter participation. To accomplish this purpose, this Act directs the Department of Elections to conduct all public school elections by United States mail and requires that all voters participating in such an election be registered voters. This Act also provides that all public school elections will be held on the same day, the second Tuesday of May. This includes referendum elections under Chapters 19, 20, and 21 of Title 14 of the Delaware Code and, therefore, a school board may hold only 1 referendum election in any calendar year, on the second Tuesday of May. Lastly, this Act makes several amendments to Chapters 19, 20, and 21 of Title 14 of the Delaware Code to reflect the change in method of voting in public school elections to mail ballots.

An Act To Amend The Delaware Code Relating To Public School Elections.

Sen. Karen Peterson [D]	Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]	Sen. Brian Bushweller [D]
Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-07-15	Senate	Assigned to Education Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/f7b21782b31b2aab85257e61004040bc?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+165/$file/legis.html?open