Bill Text: TX HB2327 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to a candidate's application for a place on the ballot.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB2327 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2327-Comm_Sub.html

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85R19104 SRS-F
By: Israel H.B. No. 2327
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2327:
By: Laubenberg C.S.H.B. No. 2327

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a candidate's application for a place on the ballot.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 141.031(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A candidate's application for a place on the ballot that
is required by this code must:
(1) be in writing;
(2) be signed and sworn to by the candidate and
indicate the date that the candidate swears to the application;
(3) be timely filed with the appropriate authority;
and
(4) include:
(A) the candidate's name;
(B) the candidate's occupation;
(C) the office sought, including any place number
or other distinguishing number;
(D) an indication of whether the office sought is
to be filled for a full or unexpired term if the office sought and
another office to be voted on have the same title but do not have
place numbers or other distinguishing numbers;
(E) a statement that the candidate is a United
States citizen;
(F) a statement that the candidate has not been
determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate
jurisdiction to be:
(i) totally mentally incapacitated; or
(ii) partially mentally incapacitated
without the right to vote;
(G) a statement that the candidate has not been
finally convicted of a felony from which the candidate has not been
pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities;
(H) the candidate's date of birth;
(I) the candidate's residence address or, if the
residence has no address, the address at which the candidate
receives mail and a concise description of the location of the
candidate's residence;
(J) the candidate's length of continuous
residence in the state and in the territory from which the office
sought is elected as of the date the candidate swears to the
application;
(K) the statement: "I, __________, of
__________ County, Texas, being a candidate for the office of
__________, swear that I will support and defend the constitution
and laws of the United States and of the State of Texas";
(L) a statement that the candidate is aware of
the nepotism law, Chapter 573, Government Code; and
(M) a public mailing address at which the
candidate receives correspondence relating to the candidate's
campaign, if available, and an [any available] electronic mail
address at which the candidate receives correspondence relating to
the candidate's campaign, if available.
SECTION 2. Section 141.039, Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 141.039. OFFICIAL APPLICATION FORM. In addition to
the other statements and spaces for entering information that
appear on an officially prescribed form for an application for a
place on the ballot, each official form for an application that a
candidate is required to file under this code must include:
(1) a space for indicating the form in which the
candidate's name is to appear on the ballot;
(2) a space for the candidate's public mailing
address;
(3) spaces for the candidate's home and office
telephone numbers and e-mail address at which the candidate
receives correspondence relating to the candidate's campaign; and
(4) a statement informing candidates that the
furnishing of the telephone numbers [or e-mail address] is
optional.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section
141.031(a), Election Code, applies to an application for a place on
the ballot made on or after the effective date of this Act. An
application for a place on the ballot made before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
application is made, and the former law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.