By Romo H.B. No. 1948
74R3928 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requiring a plurality vote to elect a precinct chairman
1-3 in a party primary.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 171.022(a) and (b), Election Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A county executive committee consists of:
1-8 (1) a county chairman, who is the presiding officer,
1-9 elected at the general primary election by majority vote of the
1-10 qualified voters of the county who vote in the primary on that
1-11 office or appointed by the county executive committee as provided
1-12 by this subchapter; and
1-13 (2) a precinct chairman from each county election
1-14 precinct, elected at the general primary by plurality <majority>
1-15 vote of the qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the
1-16 primary on that office or appointed by the county executive
1-17 committee as provided by this subchapter.
1-18 (b) If no candidate receives a majority of the votes for the
1-19 office of county chairman, a runoff to determine the office is
1-20 conducted in the same manner as a runoff primary election to
1-21 determine a nomination for public office. The candidates to be in
1-22 the <a> runoff are determined in the same manner as candidates in a
1-23 runoff for a nomination.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.