Candidate Qualifying

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Candidate Qualifying ; Authorizing a candidate to pay the filing fee by a debit card linked to the candidate’s campaign account; providing for standing for challenges to a candidate’s qualification for nomination or election to office; providing procedures and requirements regarding such challenges, etc.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Feb 21, 2025SenateFiled
2. Feb 28, 2025CommitteeReferred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules · Senate Ethics and Elections
3. Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 12, 2025CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building · Senate Ethics and Elections
5. Mar 17, 2025CommitteeCS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 · Senate Ethics and Elections8–0 vote
6. Mar 18, 2025SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
7. Mar 18, 2025CommitteeNow in Judiciary · Senate Judiciary
8. Mar 19, 2025CommitteeCS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time · Senate Ethics and Elections
9. May 3, 2025SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
10. Jun 16, 2025CommitteeDied in Judiciary · Senate Judiciary

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Mack BernardD Primary sponsor · District 24
• Ea Ethics and Elections Sponsoring committee