Bill Text: TX SB747 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 747

Bill Title: Relating to the withdrawal of a candidate in a runoff primary election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB747 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB747-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Hughes	S.B. No. 747

	(Leach)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the withdrawal of a candidate in a runoff primary
	election.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 2.023(a), Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c) or Section
	172.059, the candidates in a runoff election are the candidates who
	receive the highest and second highest number of votes in the main
	election or who tie for the highest number of votes.
	SECTION 2. Section 172.059, Election Code, is amended by
	amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read
	as follows:
	(a) A candidate for nomination may not withdraw from the
	runoff primary election after 5 p.m. of the fifth [~~3rd~~] day after
	the last day on which the state canvass may be conducted for the
	election under Section 172.120(b) [~~172.120~~]
	(c) If the runoff candidate who received the most votes cast
	withdraws from the election on or before 5 p.m. of the fifth day
	after the last day on which the state canvass may be conducted for
	the election, the candidate who received the third highest number
	of votes in the general primary election is entitled to a place on
	the runoff ballot.
	(d) If a runoff candidate withdraws after 5 p.m. of the
	fifth day after the last day on which the state canvass may be
	conducted for the election, the remaining candidate is the nominee
	and the runoff election for that office is not held.
	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to an
	election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	election ordered before the effective date of this Act is governed
	by the law in effect when the election was ordered, and the former
	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.