By: Marchant H.B. No. 565
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exceptions to the requirement that elections be held on
1-3 uniform election dates.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 41.001(b), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to:
1-8 (1) a runoff election;
1-9 (2) a local option election held under the Alcoholic
1-10 Beverage Code;
1-11 (3) an election for the issuance or assumption of
1-12 bonds or the levy of a tax for the maintenance of a public school
1-13 or college, if the governing body of the political subdivision
1-14 issuing or assuming the bonds or levying the tax, by resolution,
1-15 order, or ordinance, finds that holding the election on a date
1-16 other than a uniform election date is in the public interest, which
1-17 finding is conclusive and incontestable;
1-18 (4) an election to resolve a tie vote;
1-19 (5) an election held under an order of a court or
1-20 other tribunal;
1-21 (6) an emergency election ordered under Section
1-22 41.0011;
1-23 (7) an expedited election to fill a vacancy in the
1-24 legislature held under Section 203.013;
2-1 (8) an election held by a political subdivision using
2-2 the convention method of election; <or>
2-3 (9) an election held under a statute that expressly
2-4 provides that the requirement of Subsection (a) does not apply to
2-5 the election; or
2-6 (10) an election to recall an officer of a political
2-7 subdivision.
2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.