Bill Text: TX HB907 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the content and process for certain petitions.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-17 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB907 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB907-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Shaheen, Israel, Swanson | H.B. No. 907 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 907: | |||
| By: Israel | C.S.H.B. No. 907 | ||
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| relating to the content and process for certain petitions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 277, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 277.005 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 277.005. PETITION FORM. (a) The secretary of state | ||
| shall prescribe the form, content, and procedure for a petition. | ||
| (b) An authority may only accept a petition that follows the | ||
| official form prescribed under Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 51, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Sections 51.080, 51.081, 51.082, and 51.083 to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.080. TIME TO FILE PETITION. A petition regarding | ||
| the repeal of an order, ordinance, or resolution must be filed not | ||
| later than the 90th day after the later of the date on which the | ||
| order, ordinance, or resolution: | ||
| (1) finally passed; or | ||
| (2) was published. | ||
| Sec. 51.081. TIME TO REVIEW PETITION. The secretary of the | ||
| municipality or other authority responsible for verifying a | ||
| petition regarding the repeal of an order, ordinance, or resolution | ||
| must review the petition not later than the 30th day after the date | ||
| of the receipt of the petition. | ||
| Sec. 51.082. OPPORTUNITY TO CURE PETITION. (a) If the | ||
| secretary of the municipality or other authority responsible for | ||
| verifying a petition regarding the repeal of an order, ordinance, | ||
| or resolution determines the petition is invalid, the secretary or | ||
| other authority shall return the petition to one of the petition's | ||
| proponents with the written reasons for rejection. | ||
| (b) If the petition's proponents seek to remedy the | ||
| petition, the petition's proponents shall return the petition to | ||
| the secretary or other authority not later than the 30th day after | ||
| the date of the receipt of the rejected petition. | ||
| Sec. 51.083. CONTENT OF PETITION. A municipality must make | ||
| available on the official website, if any, of the municipality a | ||
| petition form that complies with state law and the municipality's | ||
| ordinances, orders, and other resolutions that apply to the filing | ||
| of a petition with the municipality. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 277.004, Election Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. Not later than January 1, 2018, the secretary of | ||
| state shall adopt a petition form as required by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a petition submitted on or after January 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
