2017-04-28                     House Journal                      Page 1268
    CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 1(JUD)                                                                                                
    "An Act relating to absentee voting, voting, early voting, special                                                          
    needs voting, and voter registration; relating to poll watchers;                                                            
    relating to absentee ballots, questioned ballots, and questioned                                                            
    ballot procedures; relating to which primary election ballot a voter                                                        
    may use; relating to early voting locations at which persons may                                                            
    vote absentee ballots; relating to qualifications to vote at a                                                              
    municipal election; and providing for an effective date."                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Representative Birch moved and asked unanimous consent that CSHB
(JUD) be returned to second reading for the specific purpose of                                                                
considering Amendment No. 1.  There being no objection, it was so                                                               
ordered.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Amendment No. 1 was offered  by Representatives Birch, Saddler,                                                                  
Kopp, Tilton, Johnston, Rauscher, Johnson, and Wilson:                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Page 1, line 5, following "election;" (title amendment):                                                                      
    Insert "prohibiting the replacement of a candidate who was                                                                
nominated at a primary election or the replacement after the date                                                             
of the primary election of a candidate who was nominated by                                                                   
petition on a joint ticket for the offices of governor and lieutenant                                                         
governor on the general election ballot unless the original                                                                   
candidate nominated dies, becomes disqualified, or is                                                                         
incapacitated; clarifying that the only candidate nominated by                                                                
petition that may be replaced by another candidate on the general                                                             
election ballot is a candidate nominated on a joint ticket for the                                                            
offices of governor and lieutenant governor;"                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Page 11, following line 9:                                                                                                      
    Insert new bill sections to read:                                                                                           
"* Sec. 26. AS 15.25.110 is amended to read:                                                                                  
         Sec. 15.25.110. Filling vacancies by party petition. If a                                                            
    candidate of a political party nominated at the primary election                                                            
    dies, [WITHDRAWS, RESIGNS,] becomes disqualified from                                                                       
    holding the office for which the candidate is nominated, or is                                                              
    certified as being incapacitated in the manner prescribed by this                                                           
    section after the primary election and 64 days or more before the                                                           
    general election, the vacancy may be filled by party petition. The                                                          
    central committee of any political party or any party district