Bill Text: TX SB13 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 13 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to dates of certain elections to be held in 2022.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Passed) 2021-09-10 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 2, 2021 [SB13 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB13-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 13




	AN ACT
	relating to dates of certain elections to be held in 2022.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 41.0075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 41.0075. PRIMARY ELECTION: TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a)
	This section supersedes any conflicting statute with respect to a
	primary election to be held in 2022.
	(b) For the purposes of this section, a redistricting plan
	"becomes law" on the earlier of:
	(1) the date the governor signs an Act of the 87th
	Legislature relating to the composition of the State Board of
	Education, state legislative, or federal congressional districts;
	or
	(2) the date on which the time for gubernatorial
	action on an Act of the 87th Legislature relating to the composition
	of the State Board of Education, state legislative, or federal
	congressional districts expires under Section 14, Article IV, Texas
	Constitution.
	(c) If a redistricting plan adopted following the 2020
	federal census by the legislature that includes a State Board of
	Education, state legislative, or federal congressional district
	becomes law:
	(1) on or before November 15, 2021, the following
	dates related to the primary election for the election of officers
	for the district shall apply:
	(A) an application for a place on the general
	primary election ballot must be filed not earlier than November 29,
	2021, and not later than 6 p.m. on December 13, 2021;
	(B) the general primary election date is March 1,
	2022; and
	(C) the runoff primary election date is May 24,
	2022;
	(2) after November 15, 2021, and on or before December
	28, 2021, the following dates related to the primary election for
	the election of officers for the district shall apply:
	(A) an application for a place on the general
	primary election ballot must be filed not earlier than January 10,
	2022, and not later than 6 p.m. on January 24, 2022;
	(B) the general primary election date is April 5,
	2022; and
	(C) the runoff primary election date is June 21,
	2022; and
	(3) after December 28, 2021, and on or before February
	7, 2022, the following dates related to the primary election for the
	election of officers for the district shall apply:
	(A) an application for a place on the general
	primary election ballot must be filed not earlier than February 21,
	2022, and not later than 6 p.m. on March 7, 2022;
	(B) the general primary election date is May 24,
	2022; and
	(C) the runoff primary election date is July 26,
	2022.
	(d) If a plan for a State Board of Education, state
	legislative, or federal congressional district becomes law on dates
	included under more than one subdivision of Subsection (c), the
	latest dates provided for the filing period and the general and
	runoff primary elections of all of the subdivisions applicable to
	the effective date of a plan shall apply. The county chair shall
	conduct the drawing to determine the order of the candidates' names
	on the general primary election ballot in accordance with Section
	172.082(c) after the date of the applicable filing deadline.
	(e) If a redistricting plan to which this section applies
	has not become law on or before February 7, 2022, the secretary of
	state shall set the dates of the filing period and the general and
	runoff primary elections for the election of officers of the
	districts to which this section applies. In setting dates under
	this subsection, the secretary of state shall ensure the efficient
	and orderly administration of elections and shall, to the extent
	practicable, set dates in a manner that allows the same interval of
	time in relation to the date of the election as would be provided by
	the application of other law.
	(f) Except as provided by Subsection (h), a date set for the
	filing period or the general primary election under Subsection (c)
	or (d) shall be the date of any filing period provided under this
	code or of any general primary election held under this code.
	(g) Except as provided by this section, the secretary of
	state shall adjust the schedule for canvassing election returns,
	declaring results, or performing any other official act relating to
	an election held on a date under this section as necessary for the
	efficient and orderly administration of the election. To the
	extent practicable, the secretary of state shall adjust schedules
	under this subsection in a manner that allows the same interval of
	time in relation to the date of the election as would be provided by
	the application of other law.
	(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, an
	election for the office of precinct chair held in 2022 shall be held
	on the same date as the runoff primary election held in 2022 and the
	precinct chair shall be elected by plurality vote. The secretary of
	state shall set the dates of the filing period for the election of
	the precinct chair and shall adjust the schedule for performing any
	official act relating to an election held under this subsection as
	necessary for the efficient and orderly administration of the
	election.
	(i) This section expires January 1, 2023.
	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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 13 passed the Senate on
	August 9, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 1; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on August 29, 2021, by the
	following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 13 passed the House, with
	amendment, on August 27, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 96,
	Nays 25, one present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor