Bill Text: TX SB2010 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to procedures for the determination of the validity of certain petitions filed in connection with an election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to State Affairs [SB2010 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2010-Introduced.html
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By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 2010 |
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relating to procedures for the determination of the validity of | ||
certain petitions filed in connection with an election. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 277, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
Sections 277.005 and 277.006 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 277.005. PETITION FORM. (a) The secretary of state | ||
may adopt a petition form that may be used for a petition authorized | ||
or required to be filed by a law outside this code. | ||
(b) The authority to which a petition using the form adopted | ||
under Subsection (a) is submitted may not invalidate a petition | ||
because the petition did not contain information required by | ||
Section 277.002(a)(1) that the petition form failed to provide or | ||
to require to be provided. | ||
Sec. 277.006. CERTIFICATION OF VOTERS BY SECRETARY OF | ||
STATE. (a) The authority to which a petition is submitted shall | ||
provide the petition to the secretary of state for certification | ||
under Subsection (b). | ||
(b) The secretary of state shall certify whether the signers | ||
of a petition provided to the secretary under Subsection (a) are | ||
registered voters of the applicable territory and shall deliver the | ||
results of the certification to the authority. | ||
(c) An authority may not invalidate a petition signature | ||
based on the signer's ineligibility to sign the petition if the | ||
secretary of state certified the signer under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 277.006, Election Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies only to a petition submitted on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |