By Goodman                                            H.B. No. 1117
         77R4649 PAM-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to petition requirements for an application for a place on
 1-3     the general primary election ballot for certain judicial
 1-4     candidates.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1. Section 172.021, Election Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
 1-8           (g)  A candidate for the office of chief justice or justice,
 1-9     supreme court or presiding judge or judge, court of criminal
1-10     appeals who chooses to pay the filing fee must also accompany the
1-11     application with a petition that complies with the requirements
1-12     prescribed for the petition authorized by Subsection (b), except
1-13     that the minimum number of signatures that must appear on the
1-14     petition required by this subsection is 100 from each state
1-15     senatorial district.
1-16           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.