1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 752 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1999; March 1, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 3, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 3, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to residents' voting rights and the right to file for 1-9 candidacy after an area is annexed by certain small and medium 1-10 sized municipalities. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. EFFECT OF ANNEXATION ON VOTING RIGHTS AND RIGHT 1-13 TO FILE FOR CANDIDACY. (a) This section applies only to a 1-14 home-rule municipality with a population of 110,000 or less as 1-15 shown by the most recent federal decennial census. 1-16 (b) Notwithstanding other law, in a municipal election held 1-17 on or after the 90th day after the effective date of an annexation, 1-18 the municipality shall permit: 1-19 (1) all qualified voters residing in the area annexed 1-20 to vote in any municipal election; and 1-21 (2) any otherwise qualified person residing in the 1-22 area annexed to file as a candidate for municipal office if the 1-23 person satisfies the residency requirements to be eligible for 1-24 candidacy by any combination of residence in the municipality or 1-25 the area annexed. 1-26 SECTION 2. EXTENSION OF FILING DEADLINE IN CERTAIN 1-27 CIRCUMSTANCES. In an election held under Section 1 of this Act, if 1-28 the filing deadline for a candidate's application for a place on 1-29 the ballot in a municipal election expires by other law before the 1-30 effective date of this Act, the filing deadline is extended to the 1-31 third day after the effective date of this Act for purposes of 1-32 permitting a person who resides in the area annexed to file for 1-33 candidacy. 1-34 SECTION 3. EXPIRATION DATE OF ACT. This Act expires January 1-35 1, 2000. 1-36 SECTION 4. APPLICATION OF ACT. The change in law made by 1-37 this Act applies: 1-38 (1) only to an election held on or after the effective 1-39 date of this Act; and 1-40 (2) to annexations that occur before, on, or after the 1-41 effective date of this Act. 1-42 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-43 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-48 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-49 * * * * *