By Moreno of El Paso H.B. No. 992
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prohibiting a candidate from filing applications for a
1-3 place on the ballot, declarations of intent for independent
1-4 candidacy, or declarations of write-in candidacy for more than one
1-5 office.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Section 141.033(b), Election Code, is amended to
1-8 read as follows:
1-9 (b) If a person files more than one application for a place
1-10 on a ballot in violation of this section, each application filed
1-11 [subsequent to the first one filed] is invalid.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 142.0021(b), Election Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (b) If a person files more than one declaration of intent in
1-15 violation of this section, each declaration filed [subsequent to
1-16 the first one filed] is invalid.
1-17 SECTION 3. Section 146.023(c), Election Code, is amended to
1-18 read as follows:
1-19 (c) A candidate may not file a declaration of write-in
1-20 candidacy for more than one office. If a person files more than
1-21 one declaration of write-in candidacy in violation of this
1-22 subsection, each declaration filed [subsequent to the first one
1-23 filed] is invalid.
1-24 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 5. 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.