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HOUSE BILL NO. 90
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION
BY REPRESENTATIVE SPOHNHOLZ
Introduced: 3/11/19
Referred: State Affairs
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED
1 "An Act relating to the definition of political party; and providing for an effective date."
2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
3 * Section 1. AS 15.80.010(27) is amended to read:
4 (27) "political party" means an organized group of voters that
5 represents a political program and has at least 5,000 registered voters in the state
6 [(A) THAT NOMINATED A CANDIDATE FOR
7 GOVERNOR WHO RECEIVED AT LEAST THREE PERCENT OF THE
8 TOTAL VOTES CAST FOR GOVERNOR AT THE PRECEDING
9 GENERAL ELECTION OR HAS REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE STATE
10 EQUAL IN NUMBER TO AT LEAST THREE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL
11 VOTES CAST FOR GOVERNOR AT THE PRECEDING GENERAL
12 ELECTION;
13 (B) IF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR WAS NOT ON THE
14 BALLOT AT THE PRECEDING GENERAL ELECTION BUT THE OFFICE
15 OF UNITED STATES SENATOR WAS ON THAT BALLOT, THAT
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1 NOMINATED A CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR WHO
2 RECEIVED AT LEAST THREE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL VOTES CAST
3 FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR AT THAT GENERAL ELECTION OR
4 HAS REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE STATE EQUAL IN NUMBER TO
5 AT LEAST THREE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL VOTES CAST FOR
6 UNITED STATES SENATOR AT THAT GENERAL ELECTION; OR
7 (C) IF NEITHER THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR NOR THE
8 OFFICE OF UNITED STATES SENATOR WAS ON THE BALLOT AT
9 THE PRECEDING GENERAL ELECTION, THAT NOMINATED A
10 CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE WHO
11 RECEIVED AT LEAST THREE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL VOTES CAST
12 FOR UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE AT THAT GENERAL
13 ELECTION OR HAS REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE STATE EQUAL IN
14 NUMBER TO AT LEAST THREE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL VOTES
15 CAST FOR UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE AT THAT GENERAL
16 ELECTION];
17 * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020.
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Statutes affected:
HB0090A, AM HB 90, introduced 03/11/2019: 15.80.010