Bill Text: TX SB914 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 914

Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain cities and counties to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2025-05-19 - Effective immediately [SB914 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB914-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 914




	AN ACT
	relating to authorizing certain cities and counties to change the
	date on which their general election for officers is held.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
	(f) The governing body of a city with a population of 9,000
	or less, located predominantly in a county that has a total area of
	less than 6,200 square miles, that has adopted a council-manager
	form of government and that holds its general election for officers
	on a date other than the November uniform election date may, not
	later than December 31, 2026, change the date on which it holds its
	general election for officers to the November uniform election
	date. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to the change of an
	election date under this subsection. This subsection expires
	January 1, 2027.
	(g) The governing body of a county with a population of
	425,000 or more, that is adjacent to a county with a population of
	3.3 million or more, that contains a portion of the San Jacinto
	River, and that holds its general election for officers on a date
	other than the November uniform election date may, not later than
	December 31, 2026, change the date on which it holds its general
	election for officers to the November uniform election date.
	Subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to the change of an election
	date under this subsection. This subsection expires January 1,
	2027.
	SECTION 2. 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, 2025.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 914 passed the Senate on
	March 13, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 5, 2025, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 914 passed the House, with
	amendment, on April 29, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
	Nays 0, two present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor