Bill Text: TX HB1638 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-04-28 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1638 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1638-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 1638 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1638: | |||
| By: Shaheen | C.S.H.B. No. 1638 | ||
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| relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which | ||
| their general election for officers is held. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) The governing body of a city with a population of 9,000 | ||
| or less, located predominantly in a county that has a total area of | ||
| less than 6,200 square miles, that has adopted a council-manager | ||
| form of government and that holds its general election for officers | ||
| on a date other than the November uniform election date may, not | ||
| later than December 31, 2026, change the date on which it holds its | ||
| general election for officers to the November uniform election | ||
| date. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to the change of an | ||
| election date under this subsection. This subsection expires | ||
| January 1, 2027. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
