By Romo H.B. No. 1983
74R4813 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the method of filling a vacancy in the office of
1-3 precinct chairman.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 171.022(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 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 majority vote of the
1-15 qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that
1-16 office or appointed by the county chairman <executive committee> as
1-17 provided by this subchapter.
1-18 SECTION 2. Sections 171.024(a) and (b), Election Code, are
1-19 amended to read as follows:
1-20 (a) A <The county executive committee shall fill by
1-21 appointment any> vacancy on the county executive committee shall be
1-22 filled by appointment of:
1-23 (1) the county chairman, if the vacancy is in the
1-24 office of precinct chairman; or
2-1 (2) the committee, if the vacancy is in the office of
2-2 county chairman.
2-3 (b) A majority of the committee's membership must
2-4 participate in filling a vacancy under Subsection (a)(2). To be
2-5 appointed <elected>, a person must receive a favorable vote of a
2-6 majority of the members voting.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.