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HB2372 • 2026

school board candidates; electronic signatures

HB2372 - school board candidates; electronic signatures

Education Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Stacey Travers, Anna Abeytia, Brian Garcia, Nancy Gutierrez, Consuelo Hernandez, Aaron Márquez, Stephanie Simacek
Last action
2026-01-26
Official status
House second read
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify whether the Secretary of State is required to provide and maintain the online system, only that they shall provide it.

School Board Candidates; Electronic Signatures

This bill amends Arizona law to allow school board candidates to collect up to 110% of required signatures for their nomination petitions through an online system starting in 2025.

What This Bill Does

  • Amends the law so that school board candidates can use a secure internet portal to gather electronic signatures on nomination petitions.
  • Allows candidates to collect up to 110% of the minimum number of required signatures using this online method beginning in 2025.

Who It Names or Affects

  • School board candidates who want to use electronic signatures on their nomination petitions.
  • Qualified electors (voters) who can sign nomination petitions electronically through a secure internet portal.

Terms To Know

Nomination petition
A document that lists the names of people supporting a candidate for office, used to get the candidate on the ballot.
Qualified elector
A person who is eligible to vote and can sign nomination petitions.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if a candidate collects more than 110% of the required signatures.
  • It's unclear how this change will affect other types of elections or offices beyond school boards.

Bill History

  1. 2026-01-26 House

    House second read

  2. 2026-01-22 House

    House Rules: None

  3. 2026-01-22 House

    House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections: None

  4. 2026-01-22 House

    House first read

Official Summary Text

HB2372 - school board candidates; electronic signatures

Current Bill Text

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HB2372 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
school board candidates; electronic signatures

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2372

Introduced by

Representatives
Travers: Abeytia, Garcia, Gutierrez, Hernandez C, M�rquez, Simacek

AN
ACT

amending section 16-317, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to nominating procedures.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-317, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
16-317.

Secure online signature collection; municipal, county, school
board, justice of the peace, constable; school board and precinct committeeman
offices

A. Notwithstanding any other statute in this title,
the secretary of state shall provide a system for qualified electors to sign a
nomination petition for candidates for city or town office, county office,
school board office,
justice of the peace, constable and the
office of precinct committeeman by way of a secure internet
portal. The system shall allow only those qualified electors who are
eligible to sign a petition for a particular candidate to sign the petition,
shall provide a method for the qualified elector's identity to be properly
verified and shall provide for the secretary of state to transmit those filings
or a facsimile of those filings to the officer in charge of elections for the
appropriate office. �
Through 2024, a candidate may choose to
collect up to the minimum number of required nomination petition signatures by
use of the online signature collection system prescribed by this section.

Beginning in 2025,
A candidate may choose to collect up to
one hundred ten percent of the minimum number of required nomination petition
signatures by
use of

using
the
online signature collection system prescribed by this section.

B. This section applies only to candidates for city
or town elected office, county office,
school board office,

justice of the peace, constable and the office of precinct committeeman.
END_STATUTE