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                                                       PRINTER'S NO.   461
                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 478
                                               Session of
                                                 2025
     INTRODUCED BY WEBSTER, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, SANCHEZ, DONAHUE,
        GUENST, SCHLOSSBERG, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ AND CIRESI,
        FEBRUARY 4, 2025
     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 4, 2025
                              A JOINT RESOLUTION
 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
    of Pennsylvania, further providing for disqualifications for
    service as election officer.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby resolves as follows:
    Section 1.    The following amendment to the Constitution of
 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
    That section 12 of Article VII be amended to read:
 § 12.   Disqualifications for service as election officer.
    No persons shall be qualified to serve as an election officer
 who shall hold, or shall within two months have held any
 office[,] or appointment [or employment] in or under the
 government of the United States, or of this State, or of any
 city, or county, or of any municipal board, commission or trust
 in any city, save only notaries public and persons in the
 National Guard or in a reserve component of the armed forces of
 the United States; nor shall any election officer be eligible to
 any civil office to be filled at an election at which he shall
 serve, save only to such subordinate municipal or local offices,
 below the grade of city or county offices, as shall be
 designated by general law.
    Section 2.   The following procedure applies to the proposed
 constitutional amendment in this joint resolution:
        (1)   Upon the first passage by the General Assembly of
    the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
    proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
    requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
    of Pennsylvania.
        (2)   Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of
    the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
    proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
    requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
    of Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
    submit the amendment to the qualified electors of this
    Commonwealth at the first general or municipal election which
    meets the requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
    Constitution of Pennsylvania.
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