Bill Text: TX HB273 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the content of local and state propositions on the ballot.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-23 - Senate Amendments Analysis distributed [HB273 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB273-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Gonzales of Williamson, et al. | H.B. No. 273 | |
| (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) | ||
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
| May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
| Affairs; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the content of local and state propositions on the | ||
| ballot. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 52.095, Election Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 52.095. PROPOSITIONS. (a) Except as otherwise | ||
| provided by law, the authority ordering an election in which more | ||
| than one measure is to be voted on shall determine the order in | ||
| which the propositions are to appear on the ballot and identify them | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (1) except as provided by Subdivision (2), for each | ||
| proposition on the ballot, the authority ordering the election | ||
| shall assign a letter of the alphabet to the measure that | ||
| corresponds to its order on the ballot; and | ||
| (2) for each proposition on the ballot to be voted on | ||
| statewide, the authority ordering the election shall assign a | ||
| number to the measure that corresponds to its order on the ballot. | ||
| (b) Each proposition on the ballot must identify the name of | ||
| the authority ordering the election on the measure. | ||
| (c) The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures | ||
| necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 274, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 274.004 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 274.004. PROPOSITION BALLOT ORDER. A proposed | ||
| constitutional amendment must be placed on the ballot before all | ||
| other propositions. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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