By Nixon S.B. No. 726 76R5181 WP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to property owners' association elections. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 202, Property Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Section 202.006 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 202.006. PROPERTY OWNERS' ASSOCIATION ELECTION. (a) 1-7 The governing body of a property owners' association shall be 1-8 elected or appointed in accordance with the applicable provisions 1-9 of the dedicatory instrument and the association's articles of 1-10 incorporation. 1-11 (b) For an election of members of the association's 1-12 governing body at which the names of more than one candidate are to 1-13 appear on the ballot, the order of the candidates' names shall be 1-14 determined by a drawing. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.