Bill Text: TX SB447 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain municipalities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB447 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB447-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 447 | ||
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| relating to authorizing certain municipalities to change the date | ||
| on which their general election for officers is held. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a municipality on the | ||
| Texas-Mexico border with a population of more than 85,000 that | ||
| hosts the annual Texas Citrus Fiesta and holds its general election | ||
| for officers on a date other than the November uniform election date | ||
| may change the date on which it holds its general election for | ||
| officers to the November uniform election date. A municipality | ||
| described by this subsection that changes the date of its election | ||
| under this subsection may not change the date on which it holds its | ||
| general election for officers to a date other than the November | ||
| uniform election date. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 447 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; | ||
| May 29, 2025, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and | ||
| requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 30, 2025, House | ||
| granted request of the Senate; May 31, 2025, Senate adopted | ||
| Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 31, | ||
| Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 447 passed the House, with | ||
| amendments, on May 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 138, | ||
| Nays 0, two present not voting; May 30, 2025, House granted request | ||
| of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee; | ||
| May 31, 2025, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 1, three present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
