Bill Text: TX HB969 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the election of directors of the board of the Ector County Hospital District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB969 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB969-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the election of directors of the board of the Ector County Hospital District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB969 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB969-Comm_Sub.html
By: Lewis (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) | H.B. No. 969 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011; | ||
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 2011, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to | ||
printer.) |
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relating to the election of directors of the board of the Ector | ||
County Hospital District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1024.053, Special District Local Laws | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1024.053. BALLOT PETITION. A person who wants to have | ||
the person's name printed on the ballot as a candidate for director | ||
must file with the board secretary a petition requesting that | ||
action. The petition must: | ||
(1) be signed by at least 50 registered voters of the | ||
district as determined by the most recent official list of | ||
registered voters; | ||
(2) be filed not later than 5 p.m. on the 62nd [ |
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day before the date of the election; and | ||
(3) specify the commissioners precinct the candidate | ||
wants to represent or specify that the candidate wants to represent | ||
the district at large. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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