Provide for the partisan election of judges and justices

The bill title was updated to accurately reflect a revision of signature requirements for independent candidates instead of an exemption from them.

The list of amended statutes in the title was reordered and formatted for better clarity, but the specific laws affected did not change.

Changed the nomination process to allow independent judicial candidates to be nominated in a separate primary election, whereas the previous version only covered partisan candidates.

Added a requirement that unopposed independent candidates in a judicial primary must receive a minimum number of votes to advance to the general election.

Updated the list of amended statutes to include new sections related to independent candidates and removed references to repealed sections.

Corrected the bill number from SB 42.1 to SB0042.2 and adjusted the header formatting.

The bill's title and number changed from LC 1506 to SB 42, and the sponsor was added as D. Emrich.

Subsection numbering in the district court judge oath requirement was adjusted from (2) and (3) to a combined (2)(3), which is a formatting update rather than a change to the law itself.