By: Carona H.B. No. 103 73R805 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting a person from simultaneously holding more 1-3 than one local elective office. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 180.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 180.004. PROHIBITION OF DUAL OFFICE HOLDING. (a) A 1-8 person may not hold more than one local elective office at the same 1-9 time. 1-10 (b) A person who holds a local elective office vacates that 1-11 office immediately on assuming another local elective office. 1-12 (c) Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply if either office is 1-13 an office listed in the first sentence of Article XVI, Section 40, 1-14 of the Texas Constitution as excepted from the prohibition created 1-15 by that sentence against holding or exercising more than one civil 1-16 office of emolument at the same time. 1-17 (d) In this section, "local elective office" means any 1-18 office, including a judicial office, elected from a district, 1-19 political subdivision, or part of a political subdivision of this 1-20 state, other than a member of the legislature. 1-21 (e) This section does not prohibit a person elected or 1-22 appointed to more than one local elective office before the date 1-23 this section takes effect to serve the terms of those offices to 1-24 which the person was elected or appointed before that date. This 2-1 subsection expires January 1, 2000. 2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.