Bill Text: TX HB558 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the participation of certain large counties in the countywide polling place program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-13 - No action taken in committee [HB558 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB558-Introduced.html
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By: Gutierrez | H.B. No. 558 |
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relating to the participation of certain large counties in the | ||
countywide polling place program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.007, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (i) and adding Subsection (d-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The commissioners court of a county that desires to | ||
participate in the program authorized by this section or a county | ||
with a population of more than 1.5 million in which more than 75 | ||
percent of the population lives in a single municipality shall hold | ||
a public hearing on the county's participation in the program. The | ||
commissioners court shall submit a transcript or electronic | ||
recording of the public comments made at the hearing to the | ||
secretary of state. A county that has previously participated in a | ||
similar program and held a public hearing on the county's | ||
participation in that program is not required to hold a hearing | ||
under this subsection. | ||
(d-1) The secretary of state shall select to participate in | ||
the program each county that has a population of more than 1.5 | ||
million in which more than 75 percent of the population lives in a | ||
single municipality. | ||
(i) The secretary of state may only select to participate in | ||
the program six counties with a population of 100,000 or more, not | ||
including a county selected under Subsection (d-1), and four | ||
counties with a population of less than 100,000. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |