Bill Text: TX HB1136 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to certain county chairs regarding certain election activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1136-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to certain county chairs regarding certain election activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1136-Introduced.html
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By: Aycock | H.B. No. 1136 |
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relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to | ||
certain county chairs regarding certain election activities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 31.124 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.124. PROVISION OF NOTICE TO COUNTY CHAIRS BY | ||
ELECTION AUTHORITY. (a) In this section, "election authority" | ||
means the county clerk, city secretary, or secretary of the | ||
governing body of a political subdivision other than a county or | ||
city or the authority performing the duties of a secretary under | ||
this code. | ||
(b) Each election authority shall deliver written notice of | ||
the time and place of any meeting called by the election authority | ||
for the purpose of discussing business related to an upcoming | ||
primary, runoff, or general election not later than 72 hours before | ||
the meeting date to the county chair of each political party that | ||
made nominations by primary election for the general election for | ||
state and county officers preceding the date of the meeting. | ||
(c) The notice required by Subsection (b) may be delivered | ||
by United States mail, electronic mail, or other method of written | ||
communication, as determined by the election authority. | ||
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, 2011. |