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. |