Bill Text: TX HB3959 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to drawing for ballot order on the general primary election ballot.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - Referred to Elections [HB3959 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3959-Introduced.html
  85R9902 GRM-F
 
  By: Gonzales of Williamson H.B. No. 3959
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to drawing for ballot order on the general primary
  election ballot.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 172.082(c), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  The drawing shall be conducted [at the county seat] not
  later than the 10th day after the date of the regular filing
  deadline for the general primary 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, 2017.
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