Bill Text: TX SB774 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the election of emergency services commissioners in certain emergency services districts.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-19 - Left pending in committee [SB774 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB774-Introduced.html
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| By: Nichols | S.B. No. 774 | |
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| relating to the election of emergency services commissioners in | ||
| certain emergency services districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 775.0345(b-1), (d-1), (e), and (h-1), | ||
| Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), the governing body of | ||
| a district described by Subsection (a)(2) [ |
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| five-member board of emergency services commissioners elected from | ||
| single-member districts. One director is elected from each | ||
| single-member district. As soon as possible after the district is | ||
| created, the commissioners court of the county in which the | ||
| district is located shall divide the district into five numbered | ||
| single-member districts. | ||
| (d-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (d), to be eligible to be a | ||
| candidate for emergency services commissioner in a single-member | ||
| district on an initial board in a district described by Subsection | ||
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| resident of that single-member district. | ||
| (e) A candidate for emergency services commissioner on an | ||
| initial board must give the voter registrar of the county a sworn | ||
| notice of the candidate's intention to run for office. The notice | ||
| must state the person's name, age, and address and state that the | ||
| person is serving notice of intent to run for emergency services | ||
| commissioner. If the person intends to run for emergency services | ||
| commissioner in a single-member district in a district described by | ||
| Subsection (a)(2) [ |
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| single-member district the person seeks to represent. On receipt | ||
| of the notice, the voter registrar of the county shall have the | ||
| candidate's name placed on the ballot. | ||
| (h-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (h), the five initial | ||
| emergency services commissioners elected from single-member | ||
| districts in a district described by Subsection (a)(2) [ |
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| shall draw lots to determine which two commissioners serve terms | ||
| that expire on December 31 of the second year following the year in | ||
| which the election was held and which three commissioners serve | ||
| terms that expire on December 31 of the fourth year following the | ||
| year in which the election was held. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) This Act does not prohibit a person who is | ||
| serving as an emergency services commissioner on the effective date | ||
| of this Act from running for election to the board of commissioners | ||
| after the effective date of this Act if the person has the | ||
| qualifications required for a member under Section 775.0345, Health | ||
| and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The terms of the emergency services commissioners | ||
| serving on the effective date of this Act expire on the date a | ||
| majority of the new emergency services commissioners elected under | ||
| Subsection (c) of this section qualify to serve. | ||
| (c) The county judge of a county with an emergency services | ||
| district to which Section 775.0345(a)(3), Health and Safety Code, | ||
| applies on the effective date of this Act shall establish an | ||
| election to elect new emergency services commissioners of that | ||
| district in the manner provided by Section 775.0345, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as amended by this Act, for election of the initial | ||
| commissioners as if the district had been created on the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
