Bill Text: TX HB2144 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of uniform election dates by newly incorporated municipalities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2144 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2144-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2144 |
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relating to the use of uniform election dates by newly incorporated | ||
municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 41.001(b), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to: | ||
(1) a runoff election; | ||
(2) an election to resolve a tie vote; | ||
(3) an election held under an order of a court or other | ||
tribunal; | ||
(4) an emergency election ordered under Section | ||
41.0011; | ||
(5) an expedited election to fill a vacancy in the | ||
legislature held under Section 203.013; [ |
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(6) an election held under a statute that expressly | ||
provides that the requirement of Subsection (a) does not apply to | ||
the election; or | ||
(7) the initial election of the members of the | ||
governing body of a newly incorporated city. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The governing body of a newly incorporated city may, not | ||
later than the second anniversary of the date of incorporation, | ||
change the date on which it holds its general election for officers | ||
to another authorized uniform election date. | ||
(d) Not later than September 1, 2012, the governing body of | ||
a city that was newly incorporated between January 1, 2007, and | ||
September 1, 2011, may change the date on which it holds its general | ||
election for officers to another authorized uniform election date. | ||
This subsection expires September 1, 2013. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Local Government Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 21.005 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.005. CHOICE OF UNIFORM ELECTION DATE FOR NEWLY | ||
INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITY. Not later than the first anniversary of | ||
the date of its incorporation, a newly incorporated municipality | ||
shall select a uniform election date under Section 41.001, Election | ||
Code, to use for the general election of the members of the | ||
municipality's governing body. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2144 was passed by the House on April | ||
26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2144 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |