Bill Text: TX HB3274 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the selection of election judges for countywide polling places.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to Elections [HB3274 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3274-Introduced.html
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| By: Simmons | H.B. No. 3274 | |
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| relating to the selection of election judges for countywide polling | ||
| places. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 32.002, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (g) The commissioners court shall appoint election judges | ||
| for countywide polling places used as provided by Section 43.007 in | ||
| accordance with this section, except that the number of presiding | ||
| election judges affiliated or aligned with a political party as | ||
| compared to the number of total countywide polling places shall be | ||
| in proportion to the percentage of votes that party's nominee for | ||
| governor received in the county in the most recent gubernatorial | ||
| general election. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
