Bill Text: TX HB1242 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requirements relating to an application for a place on the ballot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1242 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1242-Comm_Sub.html
85R13895 ATP-F | |||
By: Schofield | H.B. No. 1242 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1242: | |||
By: Fallon | C.S.H.B. No. 1242 |
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relating to requirements relating to an application for a place on | ||
the ballot. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 141.032(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) If an application is accompanied by a petition, the | ||
petition is considered part of the application, and the review | ||
shall be completed as soon as practicable after the date the | ||
application is received by the authority. However, the petition is | ||
not considered part of the application for purposes of determining | ||
compliance with the requirements applicable to each document, and a | ||
deficiency in the requirements for one document may not be remedied | ||
by the contents of the other document. Unless the petition is | ||
challenged, the authority is only required to review the petition | ||
for facial compliance with the applicable requirements as to form, | ||
content, and procedure. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 141.034, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) An application for a place on the ballot may not be | ||
challenged for compliance with the applicable requirements as to | ||
form, content, and procedure after the day before any ballot to be | ||
voted early by mail is mailed to an address in the authority's | ||
jurisdiction [ |
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for the election for which the application is made. | ||
(c) A challenge must state with specificity how the | ||
application does not comply with the applicable requirements as to | ||
form, content, and procedure. The authority's review of the | ||
challenge is limited to the specific items challenged and any | ||
response filed with the authority by the challenged candidate. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 172.021, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (e) and (g) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A candidate for an office specified by Section | ||
172.024(a)(8), (10), or (12), or for justice of the peace in a | ||
county with a population of more than 1.5 million, who chooses to | ||
pay the filing fee must also accompany the application with a | ||
petition for a place on the primary ballot as a candidate for | ||
judicial office that complies with the requirements prescribed for | ||
the petition authorized by Subsection (b), except that the minimum | ||
number of signatures that must appear on the petition required by | ||
this subsection is 250. If the candidate chooses to file the | ||
petition authorized by Subsection (b) in lieu of the filing fee, the | ||
minimum number of signatures required for that petition is | ||
increased by 250. Signatures on a petition filed under this | ||
subsection or Subsection (b) by a candidate covered by this | ||
subsection may not be obtained on the grounds of a county courthouse | ||
or courthouse annex. | ||
(g) A candidate for the office of chief justice or justice, | ||
supreme court, or presiding judge or judge, court of criminal | ||
appeals, who chooses to pay the filing fee must also accompany the | ||
application with a petition that complies with the requirements | ||
prescribed for a petition authorized by Subsection (b), except that | ||
the minimum number of signatures that must appear on the petition | ||
required by this subsection is 50 from each court of appeals | ||
district. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |