Bill Text: TX HB5331 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB5331 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB5331-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Murr | H.B. No. 5331 |
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relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which | ||
their general election for officers is held. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) A home-rule city may implement a [ |
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members of the governing body at the same election through the | ||
adoption of a resolution. The change contained in the resolution | ||
supersedes a city charter provision that requires a different | ||
general election date or that requires the terms of members of the | ||
governing body to be staggered. | ||
(f) The governing body of a city with a population of 9,000 | ||
or less, located predominantly in a county that has a total area of | ||
less than 4,800 square miles, that has adopted a council-manager | ||
form of government and that holds its general election for officers | ||
on a date other than the November uniform election date shall, not | ||
later than December 31, 2024, change the date on which it holds its | ||
general election for officers to the November uniform election | ||
date. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to the change of an | ||
election date under this subsection. This subsection expires | ||
January 1, 2025. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |