Bill Text: TX HB484 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a person to be a candidate for or holder of certain public elective offices.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB484 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB484-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of a person to be a candidate for or holder of certain public elective offices.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB484 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB484-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Capriglione, Raney | H.B. No. 484 |
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relating to the eligibility of a person to be a candidate for or | ||
holder of a public elective office. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 141.001(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) To be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or | ||
appointed to, a public elective office in this state, a person must: | ||
(1) be a United States citizen; | ||
(2) be 18 years of age or older on the first day of the | ||
term to be filled at the election or on the date of appointment, as | ||
applicable; | ||
(3) have not been determined by a final judgment of a | ||
court exercising probate jurisdiction to be: | ||
(A) totally mentally incapacitated; or | ||
(B) partially mentally incapacitated without the | ||
right to vote; | ||
(4) have not been finally convicted of a felony from | ||
which the person has not been pardoned or otherwise released from | ||
the resulting disabilities; | ||
(5) have resided continuously in the state for 12 | ||
months and in the territory from which the office is elected for six | ||
months immediately preceding the following date: | ||
(A) for a candidate whose name is to appear on a | ||
general primary election ballot, the date of the regular filing | ||
deadline for a candidate's application for a place on the ballot; | ||
(B) for an independent candidate, the date of the | ||
regular filing deadline for a candidate's application for a place | ||
on the ballot; | ||
(C) for a write-in candidate, the date of the | ||
election at which the candidate's name is written in; | ||
(D) for a party nominee who is nominated by any | ||
method other than by primary election, the date the nomination is | ||
made; and | ||
(E) for an appointee to an office, the date the | ||
appointment is made; [ |
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(6) on the date described by Subdivision (5), be | ||
registered to vote in the territory from which the office is | ||
elected; and | ||
(7) satisfy any other eligibility requirements | ||
prescribed by law for the office. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 601, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 601.009 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 601.009. ELECTED OFFICER MUST BE REGISTERED VOTER. | ||
(a) A person may not qualify for a public elective office unless | ||
the person is a registered voter. | ||
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to an office for which the | ||
federal or state constitution prescribes exclusive qualification | ||
requirements. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
the eligibility and qualification requirements for a candidate or | ||
officer whose term of office will begin on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. The eligibility and qualification requirements | ||
for a candidate or officer whose term of office will begin before | ||
the effective date of this Act are governed by the law in effect | ||
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |