Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 51 amends the Education Code, the Health and Safety Code, and the Water Code to require write-in candidates for membership in the governing body of a junior college district or a hospital district, or for commissioner of a self-liquidating navigation district, to declare their candidacy and to appear on a list of write-in candidates in order to be counted in a general or special election. Previous law permitted a political subdivision other than a county to cancel an election if each candidate on the ballot was unopposed and there were no write-in candidates on the list.