By Hirschi H.B. No. 2696
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility requirements for public office.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 141.004, Election Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 141.004. EFFECT OF BOUNDARY CHANGE ON RESIDENCE
1-7 REQUIREMENT FOR AN <CITY> OFFICE OF A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. In
1-8 determining whether a person has complied with a residence
1-9 requirement under Section 141.001 or 141.003 for <a> an <city>
1-10 office of a political subdivision, residence in an area while the
1-11 area was not part of the <city> political subdivision is considered
1-12 as residence within the <city> political subdivision if the area is
1-13 part of the <city> political subdivision on the date that is the
1-14 basis for determining the applicable period of residence.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.