Bill Text: TX HB1 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the composition of districts for the election of members of the Texas House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-25 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 18, 2022 [HB1 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the composition of districts for the election of members of the Texas House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-25 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 18, 2022 [HB1 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1-Comm_Sub.html
87S30726 MAW-DPLANH2176 | |||
By: Hunter | H.B. No. 1 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1: | |||
By: Hunter | C.S.H.B. No. 1 |
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relating to the composition of districts for the election of | ||
members of the Texas House of Representatives. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
ARTICLE I | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The members of the Texas House of | ||
Representatives are elected from the districts described by Article | ||
II of this Act. | ||
(b) One member is elected from each district established by | ||
this Act. | ||
ARTICLE II | ||
SECTION 1. The districts for members of the Texas House of | ||
Representatives are as described by PLANH2176 on the redistricting | ||
computer system operated by the Texas Legislative Council. | ||
ARTICLE III | ||
SECTION 1. In this Act, "tract," "block group," and "block" | ||
mean the geographic areas identified by those terms on the 2020 | ||
Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles, prepared by the federal Bureau of the | ||
Census for the Twenty-fourth Decennial Census of the United States, | ||
enumerated as of April 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that if any | ||
county, tract, block group, block, or other geographic area has | ||
erroneously been left out of this Act, a court reviewing this Act | ||
should include that area in the appropriate district in accordance | ||
with the intent of the legislature, using any available evidence of | ||
that intent, including evidence such as that used by the Supreme | ||
Court of Texas in Smith v. Patterson, 111 Tex. 535, 242 S.W. 749 | ||
(1922). | ||
SECTION 3. (a) This Act supersedes all previous enactments | ||
or orders adopting districts for the Texas House of | ||
Representatives. All previous acts of the legislature adopting | ||
districts for the Texas House of Representatives are repealed. | ||
(b) Chapter 2 (S.B. 3), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, 1st | ||
Called Session, 2013 (Article 195a-13, Vernon's Texas Civil | ||
Statutes), is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The districts described by Article II of this Act | ||
apply to the election of the members of the Texas House of | ||
Representatives beginning with the primary and general elections in | ||
2022 for members of the 88th Legislature. This Act does not affect | ||
the membership or districts of the House of Representatives of the | ||
87th Texas Legislature. | ||
SECTION 5. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |