SB 693 — Clarifying meeting voting requirements for political party executive committees

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Red = new code to be enacted WEST virginia legislature regular session ENROLLED Senate Bill 693 By Senators Tarr and Woodrum [Passed March 12, 2022;

in effect 90 days from passage]                     AN ACT to amend and reenact §3-1-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to manner of voting by a political party executive committee;

 Be Adoptedit Rejectedenacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 1.

GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.

§3-1-9.

Political party committees;

how composed;

organization.

(a) Every fourth year at the primary election, the voters of each political party in each state senatorial district shall elect four members consisting of two male members and two female members of the state executive committee of the party.

In state senatorial districts containing two or more counties, not more than two elected committee members shall be residents of the same county:

Provided, That at each election the votes shall be tallied from highest to lowest without regard to gender or county of residence.

The two candidates with the highest votes shall be elected first and the other candidates shall be qualified based on vote tallies, gender, and county of residence.

Upon completion of the canvass, the clerk of the county commission from each county shall send the results of the election of members of each state executive committee and certificates of announcement, if any, to the Secretary of State.

Upon certification of the election results, the Secretary of State shall make known to each state executive committee the members elected to such committee and the vacancies, if any.

The committee, when convened and organized as herein provided, shall appoint three additional members of the committee from the state at large which shall constitute the entire voting membership of the state executive committee:

Provided, however, That if it chooses to do so, the committee may, by motion or resolution and in accordance with party rules, expand the voting membership of the committee.

When senatorial districts are realigned following a decennial census, members of the state executive committee previously elected or appointed shall continue in office until the expiration of their terms.

Appointments made to fill vacancies on the committee until the next election of executive committee members shall be selected from the previously established districts.

At the first election of executive committee members following the realignment of senatorial districts, members shall be elected from the newly established districts.

(b) At the primary election, the voters of each political party in each county shall elect one male and one female member of the party’s executive committee of the congressional district, of the state senatorial district and of the delegate district in which the county is situated, if the county is situated in a multicounty state senatorial or delegate district.

Upon completion of the canvass, the clerk of the county commission from each county shall send the results of the election of members of each congressional district, state senatorial district and delegate district executive committee of each party to the Secretary of State.

Upon certification of the election results, the Secretary of State shall make known to each state executive committee the members elected to each congressional district, state senatorial district and delegate district executive committee and the vacancies, if any.

Upon receipt, the state executive committee shall make known any vacancies to the applicable county executive committee for the purpose of filling said vacancies as provided in subsection (f) of this section.

When districts are realigned following a decennial census, members of an executive committee previously elected in a county to represent that county in a congressional or multicounty senatorial or delegate district executive committee shall continue to represent that county in the appropriate newly constituted multicounty district until the expiration of their terms:

Provided, That the county executive committee of the political party shall determine which previously elected members will represent the county if the number of multicounty state senatorial or delegate districts in the county is decreased;

and shall appoint members to complete the remainder of the term if the number of districts is increased.

(c) At the same time the voters of the county in each magisterial district or executive committee district, as the case may be, shall elect one male and one female member of the party's county executive committee except that in counties having three executive committee districts, there shall be elected two male and two female members of the party’s executive committee from each magisterial or executive committee district.

Upon completion of the canvass, the clerk of the county commission from each county shall send the results of the election of members of the county executive committee of each party along with the certificates of announcement to the Secretary of State.

Upon certification of the election results, the Secretary of State shall make known to each state executive committee the members elected to the county committee and the vacancies, if any.

Upon receipt, the state executive committee shall make known any vacancies to the applicable county executive committee for the purpose of filling said vacancies as provided in subsection (f) of this section.

(d) For the purpose of complying with the provisions of this section, the county commission shall create the executive committee districts.

The districts shall not be fewer than the number of magisterial districts in the county, nor shall they exceed in number the following:

Forty for counties having a population of 100,000 persons or more;

30 for counties having a population of 50,000 to 100,000;

20 for counties having a population of 20,000 to 50,000;