Bill > HB2702

Introduced Session

A BILL to amend and reenact §3-10-3, §3-10-4, §3-10-5, §3-10-6, §3-10-7, and §3-10-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, and to amend and reenact §50-1-6 of said Code; all relating to requirements for filling vacancies in certain elected federal, state, and county offices; prohibiting the appointment of an individual to fill a vacant office if that person has not been a member of his or her registered political party for at least one year prior to the occurrence of the vacancy; authorizing the Governor to appoint an acting official to perform the duties of a constitutional officer until the office is filled by appointment; relating to filling vacancies in the office of magistrate; providing that vacancies in the office of magistrate with an unexpired term of more than two years are filled by subsequent nonpartisan judicial election held concurrently with the primary or general election, whichever occurs first; excluding vacancies in the office of magistrate from certain other provisions relating to process for filling vacancies; authorizing prospective vacancy due to upcoming resignation or retirement of a magistrate to be filled by circuit judge or chief circuit judge; and requiring generally that partisan office appointments be made from the political party with which the individual vacating the office was affiliated at the time of the previous election for that office.

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James Akers (R)*,  Joe Funkhouser (R),  Jordan Maynor (R), 

To Judiciary (on 03/18/2025)

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