Two Oregon State Representatives, Andy Olson (R-Albany) and Gene Whisnant (R-Sunriver), have introduced HB 2405. It would require presidential candidates to submit a long form birth certificate that must contain the name of the hospital, the physician who delivered the baby, and the names of witnesses. It also requires presidential candidates to submit a declaration telling where he or she had lived for each of the last fourteen years.

The bill doesn’t seem to acknowledge the possibility that a presidential candidate might not have been born in a hospital, or that his or her birth certificate doesn’t exist.

If the bill were to pass (which seems unlikely) the chief consequence would probably be that candidates might be kept off the ballot for errors in filing the required paperwork.

Alaska Representative Max Gruenberg (D-Anchorage) has introduced HB 13, to establish a top-two primary system for all partisan office except President. Like the Washington state version, but unlike the California version, write-ins would be permitted in November. Here is the text of the bill. Representative Gruenberg introduced the idea in the previous session of the legislature, but it did not advance.

Three Colorado legislators have introduced HB 1067, which says that if a qualified major party has no contested primaries, then no primary ballots should be printed up for that party.

The reason for this bill is that the Constitution Party probably won’t have any contested primaries in 2014, and if the bill passes, election administrators will save money. The Constitution Party polled over 10% of the vote for Governor in 2010, which meant that it was a major party for 2012 and 2014 and was expected to nominate all its candidates by primary. Smaller qualified parties in Colorado typically nominate by convention, although even qualified minor parties do have primaries when two candidates for the same office show substantial support at the nominating convention.

The bill sponsors are Representatives Carole Murray (R-Castle Rock) and Jeanne Labuda (D-Denver), and Senator Ellen Roberts (R-Durango). As far as is known, the Constitution Party supports this bill.