Bill Text: TX HB3674 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the certification of unopposed candidates for the board of directors of the North Harris County Regional Water Authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-21 - No action taken in committee [HB3674 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3674-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Roberts, Oliverson, Swanson | H.B. No. 3674 | |
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| relating to the certification of unopposed candidates for the board | ||
| of directors of the North Harris County Regional Water Authority. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 1029, Acts of the 76th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended by adding Section | ||
| 2.08 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2.08. ACTION ON CERTIFICATION OF UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES. | ||
| (a) On receipt of the certification required by Section 2.052, | ||
| Election Code, the board may declare each unopposed candidate for | ||
| the board elected to the office. | ||
| (b) If a declaration is made under Subsection (a), the | ||
| election is not held for that candidate's voting district. | ||
| (c) The ballots used at a separate election held at the same | ||
| time as an election that would have been held if the candidates were | ||
| not declared elected under this section shall include the offices | ||
| and names of the candidates declared elected under this section | ||
| listed separately after the measures or contested races in the | ||
| separate election under the heading "Unopposed Candidates Declared | ||
| Elected." The candidates shall be grouped in the same relative | ||
| order prescribed for the ballot generally. No votes are cast in | ||
| connection with the candidates. | ||
| (d) The secretary of state by rule may prescribe any | ||
| additional procedures necessary to accommodate a particular voting | ||
| system or ballot style and to facilitate the efficient and | ||
| cost-effective implementation of this section. | ||
| (e) A certificate of election shall be issued to each | ||
| candidate in the same manner and at the same time as provided for a | ||
| candidate elected at the election. The candidate must qualify for | ||
| the office in the same manner as provided for a candidate elected at | ||
| the election. | ||
| (f) Section 2.053, Election Code, does not apply to an | ||
| election for the board of directors of the authority. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
