Adopted
AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO
Senate Bill No. 2575
BY: Senator(s) Tate
AMEND on lines 17 through
24 by deleting the language starting with the word "It" and
ending with the word "vote."
AMEND after line 24 by
inserting the following and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly:
SECTION 2. Section
23-15-976, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-976.
A judicial office is a nonpartisan office and a candidate for election thereto
is prohibited from * * *campaigning
or qualifying for such an office based on party affiliation. * * * The Legislature finds that in order to ensure that
campaigns for nonpartisan judicial office remain nonpartisan and without any
connection to a political party, political parties and any committee or
political committee affiliated with a political party shall not engage in fund‑raising
on behalf of a candidate or officeholder of a nonpartisan judicial office, nor
shall a political party or any committee or political committee affiliated with
a political party make any contribution to a candidate for nonpartisan judicial
office or the political committee of a candidate for nonpartisan judicial
office, nor shall a political party or any committee or political committee
affiliated with a political party publicly endorse any candidate for
nonpartisan judicial office. No candidate or candidate's political committee
for nonpartisan judicial office shall accept a contribution from a political
party or any committee or political committee affiliated with a political party.
FURTHER, AMEND the title
to conform.