Bill Text: TX HB232 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the filing fee required for certain candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Postponed 6/1/23 10:00 AM [HB232 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB232-Comm_Sub.html

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88R20104 MLH-D
By: Swanson H.B. No. 232
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 232:
By: Burrows C.S.H.B. No. 232

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the filing fee required for certain candidates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 172.024(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The filing fee for a candidate for nomination in the
general primary election is as follows:
(1) United States senator $10,000 [$5,000]
(2) office elected statewide, except United States
senator $7,500 [3,750]
(3) United States representative $6,250 [3,125]
(4) state senator $2,500 [1,250]
(5) state representative $1,500 [750]
(6) member, State Board of Education $600 [300]
(7) chief justice or justice, court of appeals, other
than a justice specified by Subdivision (8) $3,750 [1,875]
(8) chief justice or justice of a court of appeals that
serves a court of appeals district in which a county with a
population of more than one million is wholly or partly
situated $5,000 [2,500]
(9) district judge or judge specified by Section
52.092(d) for which this schedule does not otherwise prescribe a
fee $3,000 [1,500]
(10) district or criminal district judge of a court in
a judicial district wholly contained in a county with a population
of more than 1.5 million $5,000 [2,500]
(11) judge, statutory county court, other than a judge
specified by Subdivision (12) $3,000 [1,500]
(12) judge of a statutory county court in a county with
a population of more than 1.5 million $5,000 [2,500]
(13) district attorney, criminal district attorney,
or county attorney performing the duties of a district
attorney $2,500 [1,250]
(14) county commissioner, district clerk, county
clerk, sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county treasurer,
or judge, constitutional county court:
(A) county with a population of 200,000 or
more $2,500 [1,250]
(B) county with a population of under
200,000 $1,500 [750]
(15) justice of the peace or constable:
(A) county with a population of 200,000 or
more $2,000 [1,000]
(B) county with a population of under
200,000 $750 [375]
(16) county surveyor $150 [75]
(17) office of the county government for which this
schedule does not otherwise prescribe a fee $1,500 [750]
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.