By Duncan S.B. No. 410
76R1596 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requiring a candidate for statewide judicial office to
1-3 submit a petition with the candidate's application for a place on
1-4 the ballot.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 172.021(e), Election Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (e) A candidate for a statewide judicial office, for an
1-9 office specified by Section 172.024(a)(8), (10), or (12), or for
1-10 justice of the peace in a county with a population of more than
1-11 850,000[,] who chooses to pay the filing fee must also accompany
1-12 the application with a petition that complies with the requirements
1-13 prescribed for the petition authorized by Subsection (b), except
1-14 that the minimum number of signatures that must appear on the
1-15 petition required by this subsection is 250. If the candidate
1-16 chooses to file the petition authorized by Subsection (b) instead
1-17 of the filing fee, the minimum number of signatures required for
1-18 that petition is increased by 250. Signatures on a petition filed
1-19 under this subsection or Subsection (b) by a candidate covered by
1-20 this subsection may not be obtained on the grounds of a county
1-21 courthouse or courthouse annex.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.