text of corrected document from DNC Party Affairs Training Session  (subject to change)

2016 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
DELEGATE SELECTION TIMETABLE

- 2014 -
August
 Delegate Selection Rules and Call for the Convention adopted by the DNC (August 23, 2014)
November
 Regulations for the Convention adopted by the Rules and Bylaws Committee (November 7, 2014)
December
 Rules, Call, Regulations, Model Plan and Checklist sent to State and Territorial Parties (December 15, 2014)
- 2015 -
January - April
 State Parties draft and adopt Delegate Selection Plans (30-day public comment period on Plans required before adoption)
March
 State Party Affirmative Action Committees apointed no later than March 2, 2015
May
 State Delegate selection Plans due to Rules and Bylaws Committee by May 4, 2015
June - September
 Rules and Bylaws Committee meets to act on State Plans
Mid-September
 States begin implementing Affirmative Action Plans by September 15, 2015; Rules and Bylaws Committee takes final action on State Plans by September 15, 2015
November-January
 Presidential candidate filing begins in a number of states

Delegate candidate recruitment and slating by presidential campaigns begins for pre-primary and two-part primary states
- 2016 -
February
 Pre-window primaries and caucuses begin: Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primary, Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary

Presidential candidate and delegate candidate filing continues
March
 Window opens for all state primaries and caucuses: March 1, 2016
June
 Window closes for all state primaries and caucuses: June 14, 2016

All official Convention participants (delegates, alternates, standing committee members, pages, and delegation chair) selected by June 25, 2016
June &/or July
 Convention standing committee meetings: Credentials, Platform, and Rules (dates TBD)
Week of July 25th
 2016 Democratic National Convention

Prepared by the DNC Office of Party Affairs and Delegate Selection
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