By Shields H.B. No. 2762
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of district judges in certain counties by
1-3 cumulative voting.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. (a) In each county that contains more than one
1-6 judicial district wholly within the county for which judges are
1-7 elected in the same year, the judges of those districts shall be
1-8 elected as provided by this section.
1-9 (b) The name of each candidate for district judge shall be
1-10 listed on the general election ballot under the same heading. A
1-11 voter receives a number of votes equal to the number of judicial
1-12 districts covered by this section.
1-13 (c) A voter may cast all or any portion of the voter's votes
1-14 for a candidate in an election held under this section, and may
1-15 cast votes for more than one candidate.
1-16 (d) The officer canvassing the election shall list the
1-17 candidates in order according to the number of votes received by
1-18 each. The number of candidates receiving the most votes equal to
1-19 the number of judicial districts for which judges are being elected
1-20 in the election are elected.
1-21 (e) The judges elected shall be assigned by lot to the
1-22 judicial districts for which judges are elected in the election.
1-23 (f) Elections under this section are nonpartisan. There is
2-1 no primary election for candidates in an election under this
2-2 section.
2-3 SECTION 2. 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.