The bill amends several sections of the General Laws concerning the nomination of party and independent candidates, specifically addressing the timelines for filing declarations of candidacy and nomination papers. Key changes include the specification that declarations must be filed on the seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth days before the primary election, with provisions for filing on the next two business days if the deadline falls on a holiday. Additionally, the bill modifies the deadlines for filing nomination papers, moving the deadline for state and federal candidates to sixty-one days before the election and establishing that objections to nomination papers must be filed by four o'clock p.m. on the fifty-sixth day before the primary.

Furthermore, the bill updates the date of primary elections to the ninth Tuesday preceding biennial state elections, with a provision that if this date falls on the day after Labor Day, the primary will be held the following Wednesday. The act is set to take effect on January 1, 2028.

Statutes affected:
2133: 17-15-1