Bill Text: TX SB702 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 702 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to a minimum voter turnout requirement for an election authorizing the issuance of bonds issued by a political subdivision.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-22 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB702 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB702-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Huffines	S.B. No. 702
	(In the Senate - Filed February 1, 2017; February 21, 2017,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
	Relations; May 17, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1;
	May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 702	By: Huffines


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to a minimum voter turnout requirement for an election
	authorizing the issuance of bonds issued by a political
	subdivision.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 2, Election Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 2. VOTE REQUIRED FOR ELECTION [~~TO OFFICE~~]
	SECTION 2. Chapter 2, Election Code, is amended by adding
	Subchapter E to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER E. TURNOUT REQUIREMENTS
	Sec. 2.101. POLITICAL SUBDIVISION BOND ELECTION. An
	election held by a political subdivision to authorize the issuance
	of bonds has no effect regarding the approval of the bonds unless at
	least 15 percent of the registered voters of the political
	subdivision vote in the election in which the bond proposition is on
	the ballot.
	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an election held on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	election held before the effective date of this Act is governed by
	the law in effect when the election was held, and that law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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