Connecticut SB 1233, which would set up a procedure by which a group could transform itself into a qualified party in advance of any particular election, has cleared all committee hurdles. It is now in the queue to be taken up by the State Senate. The bill requires a petition signed by 1% of the last vote cast, in order to create a new ballot-qualified party. Such a group, having completed the petition, could then nominate by convention for all partisan offices with no more petitioning.