Bill Text: TX HB2496 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a filing fee submitted with an application for a place on a ballot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-11 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2496-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 2496 | |
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| relating to a filing fee submitted with an application for a place | ||
| on a ballot. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 172.021, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the authority | ||
| receiving an application shall return it to the applicant as | ||
| incomplete if the applicant submits payment of a fee that is | ||
| returned for insufficient funds. The applicant may resubmit the | ||
| application before the end of the filing period, but payment of the | ||
| filing fee may not be made in the form of a check from the same | ||
| account as that of the payment previously returned for insufficient | ||
| funds. | ||
| (b-2) If a payment of a filing fee is returned for | ||
| insufficient funds after the end of the filing period, the | ||
| application is not considered to be timely filed, and the authority | ||
| receiving the application shall inform the applicant that the | ||
| application was not valid. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
