Bill Text: TX HB4497 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to changing the date of an election during a declared disaster.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Elections [HB4497 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4497-Introduced.html
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| By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 4497 | |
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| relating to changing the date of an election during a declared | ||
| disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 41.0012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 41.0012. EMERGENCY REQUIRING POSTPONED ELECTION. (a) | ||
| This section applies only during a state of disaster or emergency | ||
| declared by the president of the United States or a state of | ||
| disaster declared by the governor under Chapter 418, Government | ||
| Code. | ||
| (b) Unless otherwise ordered by the governor, the governing | ||
| body of a political subdivision, other than a county, that holds an | ||
| election on a date other than the November uniform election date may | ||
| postpone the election to the third Saturday in August. | ||
| (c) A governing body postponing an election under this | ||
| section shall adjust the terms of office to conform to the new | ||
| election date. | ||
| (d) A change authorized under this section adopted in a | ||
| resolution by a home-rule city supersedes a city charter provision | ||
| to the extent of any conflict. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an election ordered on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. An election ordered before | ||
| the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
