1-1 By: Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Shelley) H.B. No. 564
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 17, 1993;
1-3 March 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; April 16, 1993, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays
1-6 0; April 16, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 564 By: Bosse
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to write-in candidacy in certain water district elections.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 50, Water Code, is amended
1-26 by adding Section 50.004 to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 50.004. WRITE-IN VOTING IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. (a) In
1-28 a general election for board members under Chapter 51, 52, 53, or
1-29 54 of this code, a write-in vote may not be counted unless the name
1-30 written in appears on the list of write-in candidates.
1-31 (b) To be entitled to a place on the list of write-in
1-32 candidates, a candidate must make a declaration of write-in
1-33 candidacy.
1-34 (c) A declaration of write-in candidacy must be filed with
1-35 the authority with whom an application for a place on the ballot is
1-36 required to be filed in the election.
1-37 (d) A declaration of write-in candidacy must be filed not
1-38 later than 5 p.m. of the 30th day before election day. However, if
1-39 a candidate whose name is to appear on the ballot dies or is
1-40 declared ineligible after the 33rd day before election day, a
1-41 declaration of write-in candidacy for the office sought by the
1-42 deceased or ineligible candidate may be filed not later than 5 p.m.
1-43 of the 27th day before election day.
1-44 (e) Subchapter B, Chapter 146, Election Code, applies to
1-45 write-in voting in a general election for board members except to
1-46 the extent of a conflict with this section.
1-47 (f) The secretary of state shall adopt the rules necessary
1-48 to implement this section.
1-49 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-50 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-51 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-52 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-53 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-54 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 Austin,
1-57 Texas
1-58 April 16, 1993
1-59 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-60 President of the Senate
1-61 Sir:
1-62 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-63 No. 564, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-64 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-65 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-66 do pass and be printed.
1-67 Truan,
1-68 Vice-Chairman
2-1 * * * * *
2-2 WITNESSES
2-3 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 564.