Bill Text: TX HB2494 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the election of emergency services commissioners in certain emergency services districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2494 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2494-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2494 |
|
||
relating to the election of emergency services commissioners in | ||
certain emergency services districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 775.0345(b-1), (d-1), (e), and (h-1), | ||
Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), the governing body of | ||
a district described by Subsection (a)(2) [ |
||
five-member board of emergency services commissioners elected from | ||
single-member districts. One director is elected from each | ||
single-member district. As soon as possible after the district is | ||
created, the commissioners court of the county in which the | ||
district is located shall divide the district into five numbered | ||
single-member districts. | ||
(d-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (d), to be eligible to be a | ||
candidate for emergency services commissioner in a single-member | ||
district on an initial board in a district described by Subsection | ||
(a)(2) [ |
||
resident of that single-member district. | ||
(e) A candidate for emergency services commissioner on an | ||
initial board must give the voter registrar of the county a sworn | ||
notice of the candidate's intention to run for office. The notice | ||
must state the person's name, age, and address and state that the | ||
person is serving notice of intent to run for emergency services | ||
commissioner. If the person intends to run for emergency services | ||
commissioner in a single-member district in a district described by | ||
Subsection (a)(2) [ |
||
single-member district the person seeks to represent. On receipt | ||
of the notice, the voter registrar of the county shall have the | ||
candidate's name placed on the ballot. | ||
(h-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (h), the five initial | ||
emergency services commissioners elected from single-member | ||
districts in a district described by Subsection (a)(2) [ |
||
shall draw lots to determine which two commissioners serve terms | ||
that expire on December 31 of the second year following the year in | ||
which the election was held and which three commissioners serve | ||
terms that expire on December 31 of the fourth year following the | ||
year in which the election was held. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) This Act does not prohibit a person who is | ||
serving as an emergency services commissioner on the effective date | ||
of this Act from running for election to the board of commissioners | ||
after the effective date of this Act if the person has the | ||
qualifications required for a member under Section 775.0345, Health | ||
and Safety Code. | ||
(b) The terms of the emergency services commissioners | ||
serving on the effective date of this Act expire on the date a | ||
majority of the new emergency services commissioners elected under | ||
Subsection (c) of this section qualify to serve. | ||
(c) The county judge of a county with an emergency services | ||
district to which Section 775.0345(a)(3), Health and Safety Code, | ||
applies on the effective date of this Act shall establish an | ||
election to elect new emergency services commissioners of that | ||
district in the manner provided by Section 775.0345, Health and | ||
Safety Code, as amended by this Act, for election of the initial | ||
commissioners as if the district had been created on the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2494 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2494 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
11, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
_____________________ | ||
Governor |