Connecticut legislation · 2025 General Assembly
Connecticut SB1536: AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IN PARTY CAUCUSES, CONVENTIONS AND PRIMARIES, INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENC
Status: Introduced, March 19, 2025
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IN PARTY CAUCUSES, CONVENTIONS AND PRIMARIES, INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARIES, AND IN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
What the bill says
An act concerning the use of ranked-choice voting in party caucuses, conventions and primaries, including presidential preference primaries. assembly convened.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IN PARTY CAUCUSES, CONVENTIONS AND PRIMARIES, INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARIES. Assembly convened: Section 1. (NEW) (Effective January 1, 2026) (a) As used in this section: (1) "Active candidate" means, with respect to a round of tabulation under ranked-choice voting, a candidate (A) whose name appears on the ballot or who is registered as a write-in candidate, and (B) who has not been eliminated, is not a winning candidate and is not a withdrawn candidate; (2) "Inactive ballot" means, with respect to a given round of tabulation and all subsequent rounds of tabulation under ranked-choice voting, a ballot on which no vote is tabulated because (A) no candidate ranked on the ballot remains an active candidate; or (B) two or more candidates are ranked at the same order of preference and no other candidates that are ranked higher remain as active candidates; LCO No. 6694 1 of Raised Bill No. 1536 (3) "Ranked-choice voting" means a system of casting and tabulating votes under which, with respect to a particular office, (A) each elector is able to rank candidates on the ballot in the order of such elector's preference, (B) one or more rounds of tabulation are used to determine active candidates in accordance with electors' preferences, and (C) the active candidate with the …
Sponsors
- Laurie Sweet (D, 91) · primary sponsor
- Steven Winter (D, 94)
- Joshua Elliott (D, 88)
- Aundre Bumgardner (D, 41)
- Jonathan Steinberg (D, 136)
- Nicholas Menapace (D, 37)
- Paul Honig (D, 8)
- Jennifer Leeper (D, 132)
- Nicholas Gauthier (D, 38)
- Michael Shannon (D, 117)
- Jane Garibay (D, 60)
- Mary Mushinsky (D, 85)
Latest actions
- : No New File by Committee on Appropriations
- : Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- : Joint Favorable
- : Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- : Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- : Referred by Senate to Committee on Appropriations
- : Rules Suspended and Transmitted
- : Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- : Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- : Senate Calendar Number 373
Common questions
- What is SB1536?
- SB1536 is a bill in the Connecticut Legislature (2025 General Assembly): AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF RANKED-CHOICE VOTING IN PARTY CAUCUSES, CONVENTIONS AND PRIMARIES, INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENC.
- What does SB1536 do?
- In its own words: An act concerning the use of ranked-choice voting in party caucuses, conventions and primaries, including presidential preference primaries. assembly convened.
- What is the status of SB1536?
- Introduced as of March 19, 2025. Latest action: No New File by Committee on Appropriations (May 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB1536?
- Laurie Sweet (D, 91), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SB1536?
- On the Connecticut Legislature website: https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB01536&which_year=2025
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