Signed by Governor Sam Brownback

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report that requires local elections to be moved from the spring to the fall.

Highlights:

• Amends the date of city and district elections to be the Tuesday following the first Monday of November of odd years (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits an individual who has been nominated for a national, state, county, or township office from being withdrawn from the nomination after the primary election, except in the following cases (Sec. 1):

• The individual no longer resides in the state;

• The individual or an immediate family member suffers a severe medical hardship; or

• The individual dies.

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