Bill Text: TX SB747 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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
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 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2023; March 1, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
March 22, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 2; March 22, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 747 | By: Hughes |
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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 [ |
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the last day on which the state canvass may be conducted for the | ||
election under Section 172.120(b) [ |
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(c) If a runoff candidate 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. | ||
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