1-1 By: Goodman (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 1117 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2001; 1-3 April 18, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 11, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1117 By: Harris 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to petition requirements for an application for a place on 1-11 the general primary election ballot for certain judicial 1-12 candidates. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 172.021, Election Code, is amended by 1-15 adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-16 (g) A candidate for the office of chief justice or justice, 1-17 supreme court or presiding judge or judge, court of criminal 1-18 appeals who chooses to pay the filing fee must also accompany the 1-19 application with a petition that complies with the requirements 1-20 prescribed for the petition authorized by Subsection (b), except 1-21 that the minimum number of signatures that must appear on the 1-22 petition required by this subsection is 100 each from five state 1-23 senatorial districts. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001. 1-25 * * * * *