Bill Text: WV HB2009 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Providing petitioners to referendums, elections or any other ballot issue be afforded the same privacy rights as voters
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - To House Judiciary [HB2009 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2013-HB2009-Introduced.html
(By Delegate Kump)
[Introduced February 13, 2013; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §3-1-4a, relating to providing petitioners to referendums, elections or any other ballot issue be afforded the same privacy rights as voters.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §3-1-4a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
§3-1-4a. Manner of petitioning.
_____In all petitions for referendums, elections or other ballot issues requiring a person's name, address and signature, the signatories to those petitions shall have the same privacy rights afforded voters pursuant to section four of this article.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide petitioners to referendums, elections or any other ballot issue be afforded the same privacy rights as voters.
This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
