Bill Text: NJ A1924 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Reduces number of signatures required on petition to recall elected official.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [A1924 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A1924-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
215th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CAROLINE CASAGRANDE
District 11 (Monmouth)
SYNOPSIS
Reduces number of signatures required on petition to recall elected official.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act reducing the number of signatures required on a recall petition and amending P.L.1995, c.105.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 5 of P.L.1995, c.105 (C.19:27A-5) is amended to read as follows:
5. A recall petition demanding that an election be held for the purpose of deciding whether an elected official shall be recalled from office shall be signed by a number of registered voters of the jurisdiction of the official sought to be recalled equal to at least [25%] 12% of the [persons registered to vote] voters who voted in that jurisdiction [on the date of the general] at the election [preceding the date on which the sponsors of the petition file a notice of intention pursuant to section 6 of this act] at which that official was elected. A recall petition shall be filed with the appropriate recall election official. No recall petition shall demand the holding of an election to recall more than one elected official.
(cf: P.L.1995, c.105, s.5)
2. This act shall take effect immediately or on the date that the constitutional amendment proposed by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 163 becomes part of the New Jersey Constitution, whichever occurs later.
STATEMENT
This bill reduces the number of signatures required on a petition to recall an elected official. At present, in order to have the question of the recall of an elected official placed on the ballot for consideration by the voters, a recall petition must be signed by a number of registered voters of a jurisdiction equal to at least 25% of the persons registered to vote in that jurisdiction on the date of the general election preceding the date on which the sponsors of the petition file a notice of intention to seek the official's recall. The bill would provide, instead, that a recall petition be signed by a number of registered voters of the jurisdiction of the official sought to be recalled equal to at least 12% of the voters who voted in that jurisdiction at the election at which that official was elected.
