Bill Text: TX SB946 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance of bonds or a tax increase.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-13 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB946 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB946-Comm_Sub.html
By: Sparks | S.B. No. 946 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2023; March 3, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 6, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 3; April 6, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance | ||
of bonds or a tax increase. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 41.0051 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 41.0051. ELECTION TO ISSUE BONDS OR INCREASE TAXES. | ||
(a) An election for the issuance of bonds or other debt or a tax | ||
increase shall be held on the November uniform election date. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 41.0011, an election described | ||
by Subsection (a) may not be held as an emergency election under | ||
that section. | ||
(c) If a law outside this code requires an election | ||
described by Subsection (a) to be held on a date other than the | ||
November uniform election date, the authority administering the | ||
election shall set the election date to comply with this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
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. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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