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.