Bill Text: TX HB371 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 371

Bill Title: Relating to the date of runoff elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB371 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB371-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Bucy, Plesa (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)	H.B. No. 371
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
	May 1, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on State
	Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the date of runoff elections.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 2.025, Election Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or as otherwise
	provided by this code, a runoff election shall be held on a Saturday
	designated by the secretary of state [~~not earlier than the 20th or~~
	~~later than the 45th day after the date the final canvass of the main~~
	~~election is completed~~].
	(e) A date designated by the secretary of state under this
	section for a runoff election:
	(1) must be:
	(A) not earlier than the 30th day after the date
	of the main election; and
	(B) not later than the 45th day after the date of
	the main election; and
	(2) may not:
	(A) be a national or state holiday under Section
	1.006(f); or
	(B) have an early voting period that includes a
	national or state holiday under Section 1.006(f).
	SECTION 2. Section 2.025(b), Election Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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