Arizona HB 2372: animal cruelty; release conditions

Bill Text

HB2372 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: school board candidates; electronic signatures

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HB 2372

 Introduced by 

 Representatives 
 Travers: Abeytia, Garcia, Gutierrez, Hernandez C, M�rquez, Simacek

AN 
ACT

amending section 16-317, Arizona Revised 
Statutes; relating to nominating procedures.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-317, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-317. Secure online signature collection; municipal, county, school 
board, justice of the peace, constable; school board and precinct committeeman 
offices

A. Notwithstanding any other statute in this title, 
the secretary of state shall provide a system for qualified electors to sign a 
nomination petition for candidates for city or town office, county office, school board office, justice of the peace, constable and the 
office of precinct committeeman by way of a secure internet 
portal. The system shall allow only those qualified electors who are 
eligible to sign a petition for a particular candidate to sign the petition, 
shall provide a method for the qualified elector's identity to be properly 
verified and shall provide for the secretary of state to transmit those filings 
or a facsimile of those filings to the officer in charge of elections for the 
appropriate office. �Through 2024, a candidate may choose to 
collect up to the minimum number of required nomination petition signatures by 
use of the online signature collection system prescribed by this section. 
Beginning in 2025, A candidate may choose to collect up to 
one hundred ten percent of the minimum number of required nomination petition 
signatures by use of using the 
online signature collection system prescribed by this section.

B. This section applies only to candidates for city 
or town elected office, county office, school board office, 
justice of the peace, constable and the office of precinct committeeman. END_STATUTE