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 | ||
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Governor |