By Hirschi H.B. No. 2695
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of party officials.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 171.022, Election Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 171.022. Committee Composition. (a) A county
1-7 executive committee consists of:
1-8 (1) a county chairman, who is the presiding officer,
1-9 elected at the general primary by majority vote of the qualified
1-10 voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that office; and
1-11 (2) a precinct chairman from each county election
1-12 precinct, elected at the general primary by <majority> plurality
1-13 vote of the qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the
1-14 primary on that office.
1-15 (b) If no candidate for county chairman receives a majority
1-16 of the votes, a runoff to determine the office is conducted in the
1-17 same manner as a runoff primary election to determine a nomination
1-18 for public office. The candidates to be in a runoff are determined
1-19 in the same manner as candidates in a runoff for a nomination.
1-20 (c) Each committee member serves for a term of two years
1-21 beginning the 20th day after runoff primary election day.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.