Bill Text: TX SB465 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 465 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to voting rights in the areas that are included in a municipality's annexation plan.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-07 - Co-author authorized [SB465 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB465-Introduced.html

	85R3681 PAM-D

	By: Lucio	S.B. No. 465



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to voting rights in the areas that are included in a
	municipality's annexation plan.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
	is amended by adding Section 43.0525 to read as follows:
	Sec. 43.0525. VOTING RIGHTS IN AREAS INCLUDED IN MUNICIPAL
	ANNEXATION PLAN. (a) The qualified voters residing in an area that
	is included in a municipality's annexation plan under Section
	43.052 are entitled to vote in municipal elections regarding the
	election or recall of members of the governing body of the
	municipality, the election or recall of the controller, if the
	office of controller is an elective position of the municipality,
	and the amendment of the municipal charter. The voters may not vote
	in any municipal bond election.
	(b) On or after the 15th day but before the fifth day before
	the date of the first election held after the date a municipality
	adopts or amends its annexation plan to include an area, the
	municipality shall publish notice in the form of a quarter-page
	advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation in the area
	notifying the residents of the area regarding the eligibility to
	vote in the election and stating the location of all polling places
	for the residents.
	(b-1) This subsection applies to an area included in a
	municipality's annexation plan before September 1, 2017, for which
	the annexation has not been completed. A municipality subject to
	this subsection, on or after the 15th day but before the fifth day
	before the date of the first election held after September 1, 2017,
	shall publish notice in the form of a quarter-page advertisement in
	a newspaper of general circulation in the area notifying the
	residents of the area regarding the eligibility to vote in the
	election and stating the location of all polling places for the
	residents. This subsection expires September 1, 2019.
	(c) A resident of an area described by Subsection (a) is not
	eligible to be a candidate for or to be elected to a municipal
	office.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.