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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Lundstrom

DATE TYPED 02/14/05 HB 559

SHORT TITLE Election Candidate Permanent Addresses

SB

ANALYST Ford

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained Estimated Additional Impact Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY05

FY06

FY05

FY06

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to

SB 462

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Secretary of State (SOS)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 559 amends the Election Code to provide new rules for determining the place of resi-

dence of a candidate running for public office. The rules state that the residence shall be the

place where the person’s habitation is fixed and where the person intends to return after tempo-

rary absences. This is presumed to be a place where the person physically resides. A parent’s

residence shall not be presumed to be the residence of a child who has reached the age of major-

ity unless that residence is the only place the child physically resides. There can be only one

residence. Finally, a person does not gain or lose residence solely by reason of the person’s

presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States or of the state of New

Mexico, or while the person is a student at any school.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

This bill is almost identical to Senate Bill 462. Senate Bill 462 differs only in that it requires a

person to physically reside in a place of residence for a minimum of 183 days in a calendar year

for that place to be considered the person’s residence.

EF/yr