Bill Text: TX HB831 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the residency requirement to be eligible for public office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 1/1/20 [HB831 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB831-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 831 | ||
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| relating to the residency requirement to be eligible for public | ||
| office. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 141.001, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (a-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) For purposes of satisfying the continuous residency | ||
| requirement of Subsection (a)(5), a person who claims an intent to | ||
| return to a residence after a temporary absence may establish that | ||
| intent only if the person: | ||
| (1) has made a reasonable and substantive attempt to | ||
| effectuate that intent; and | ||
| (2) has a legal right and the practical ability to | ||
| return to the residence. | ||
| (a-2) Subsection (a-1) does not apply to a person displaced | ||
| from the person's residence due to a declared local, state, or | ||
| national disaster. | ||
| (a-3) The authority with whom an application for a place on | ||
| a general primary election ballot is filed under Section 172.022 | ||
| shall, to the extent permitted by law, use Subsections (a) and (a-1) | ||
| in determining whether a candidate meets the residency requirements | ||
| for a public elective office. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a candidate in an | ||
| election held on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 831 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 6, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 831 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
