Bill Text: TX HB4621 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority to cancel certain elections on a measure.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4621 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4621-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bhojani, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) | H.B. No. 4621 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023; | ||
May 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 21, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 21, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the authority to cancel certain elections on a measure. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2.083 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2.083. CANCELLATION OF ELECTION DURING DECLARED | ||
DISASTER. (a) In this section, "disaster" has the meaning assigned | ||
by Section 418.004, Government Code. | ||
(b) The authority that ordered an election on a measure may | ||
request approval from the secretary of state to cancel the election | ||
if: | ||
(1) the governor issued a disaster declaration for a | ||
disaster under Chapter 418, Government Code, covering an area | ||
within the authority's jurisdiction; and | ||
(2) the authority determines that the disaster makes | ||
holding the election impossible. | ||
(c) In determining whether to grant a request to cancel an | ||
election on a measure under this section, the secretary of state | ||
shall consider the circumstances of the disaster in the affected | ||
area, including whether other elections in or near the area can be | ||
conducted. | ||
(d) If the secretary of state grants a request to cancel an | ||
election on a measure under this section, the authority holding the | ||
election shall post notice of the cancellation during early voting | ||
by personal appearance and on election day, at each polling place | ||
that would have been used for the election on the measure. | ||
(e) If an election on a measure required following the | ||
submission of a petition signed by a number of registered voters is | ||
canceled under this section, the authority that ordered the | ||
election shall order a new election on the measure for the first | ||
available uniform election day after the canceled 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, 2023. | ||
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