Bill Text: TX SB1750 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1750

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Bill Title: Relating to abolishing the county elections administrator position in certain counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1750 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1750-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Bettencourt	S.B. No. 1750

	(Cain, Schofield, DeAyala, Swanson, Harless)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to abolishing the county elections administrator position
	in certain counties.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter B, Chapter 31,
	Election Code, is amended to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER B. COUNTY ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR IN CERTAIN COUNTIES
	SECTION 2. Section 31.031(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) The commissioners court of a county with a population of
	3.5 million or less by written order may create the position of
	county elections administrator for the county.
	SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Election Code, is
	amended by adding Section 31.050 to read as follows:
	Sec. 31.050. ABOLISHMENT OF POSITION AND TRANSFER OF DUTIES
	IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. On September 1, 2023, all powers and duties of
	the county elections administrator of a county with a population of
	more than 3.5 million under this subchapter are transferred to the
	county tax assessor-collector and county clerk. The county tax
	assessor-collector shall serve as the voter registrar, and the
	duties and functions of the county clerk that were performed by the
	administrator revert to the county clerk, unless a transfer of
	duties and functions occurs under Section 12.031 or 31.071.
	SECTION 4. On the effective date of this Act, a county that
	has a county elections administrator and a population of more than
	3.5 million shall transfer employees, property, and records as
	necessary to accomplish the abolishment of the position of county
	elections administrator under this Act.
	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.