Bill Text: TX HB3202 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county to issue bonds to purchase a voting system or voting system equipment.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-13 - Referred to Elections [HB3202 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3202-Introduced.html
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| By: Calanni | H.B. No. 3202 | |
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| relating to the authority of a county to issue bonds to purchase a | ||
| voting system or voting system equipment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1301.001(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The commissioners court of a county may issue bonds | ||
| authorized under Subtitle A and Chapter 1251 to: | ||
| (1) build a county courthouse or jail; | ||
| (2) purchase suitable sites in the county and to | ||
| construct buildings on the sites for homes or schools for dependent | ||
| or delinquent children; | ||
| (3) establish county facilities for needy or indigent | ||
| persons in the county; | ||
| (4) purchase and construct bridges for public purposes | ||
| in the county or to cross a stream serving as the county's boundary | ||
| line; [ |
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| (5) improve and maintain the public roads in the | ||
| county; | ||
| (6) purchase equipment necessary for operating the | ||
| county's voting system; or | ||
| (7) purchase a new voting system for elections | ||
| administered in the county. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
