Bill Text: TX SB817 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain requirements for political parties holding conventions and for officers of certain of those parties.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB817 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB817-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain requirements for political parties holding conventions and for officers of certain of those parties.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB817 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB817-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hegar | S.B. No. 817 | |
(Johnson) | ||
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relating to certain requirements for political parties holding | ||
conventions and for officers of certain of those parties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.005, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) To be eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as a | ||
county or precinct chair of a political party, a person must: | ||
(1) be a qualified voter of the county; and | ||
(2) except as provided by Subsection (c), not be a | ||
candidate for nomination or election to, or be the holder of, an | ||
elective office of the federal, state, or county government. | ||
(c) A candidate for nomination or election to, or the holder | ||
of, an elective office of the federal, state, or county government | ||
is eligible to serve as a county or precinct chair of a political | ||
party to which Chapter 181 applies. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 163.002, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 163.002. REQUIRED RULES. A political party that makes | ||
nominations in this state shall adopt rules that: | ||
(1) prescribe the parliamentary procedure governing | ||
the conduct of party meetings and conventions from the precinct | ||
level to the state level, including: | ||
(A) quorums; | ||
(B) casting and counting votes; | ||
(C) operation of executive committees; | ||
(D) appointment and duties of convention | ||
committees; and | ||
(E) presentation of matters before a convention; | ||
(2) prescribe the method of selecting the party's | ||
presidential elector candidates; | ||
(3) prescribe the manner of selecting party officers, | ||
convention delegates, any convention alternates, and convention | ||
officials; | ||
(4) provide for representative apportionment of party | ||
officers, convention delegates, any convention alternates, and | ||
convention officials throughout the state on the basis of | ||
population, party strength, or both, within the appropriate | ||
territorial unit; | ||
(5) provide for periodic publication and publicizing | ||
of party rules; and | ||
(6) prescribe the manner of adopting party rules and | ||
amendments to the rules. | ||
SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 181.061, Election Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A political party nominating by convention must make its | ||
nominations for statewide offices at a state convention held on the | ||
second Saturday in April [ |
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the Sunday after the second Saturday in April in an election year is | ||
the date of the Easter holiday, the state convention must be held on | ||
the third Saturday in April of that year. The state convention | ||
consists of delegates selected at the county conventions held under | ||
Subsection (c). | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |