By Madden H.B. No. 309
76R1560 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the validity of a signature on a petition for an
1-3 election.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 141.063, Election Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-7 (e) A petition signature is invalid if the signer signed the
1-8 petition earlier than the 120th day before the date the petition is
1-9 filed.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 277.002(e), Election Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (e) A petition signature is invalid if the signer signed the
1-13 petition earlier than the 120th [180th] day before the date the
1-14 petition is filed.
1-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-16 applies only to a petition for an election that is filed on or
1-17 after that date. A petition for an election that is filed before
1-18 September 1, 1999, is governed by the law in effect at the time the
1-19 petition was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-20 that purpose.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.