By Harris S.B. No. 234
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the date of the primary election and related
1-3 procedures.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 41.007(a), (b), and (c), Election Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The general primary election date is the first [second]
1-8 Tuesday in March in each even-numbered year.
1-9 (b) The runoff primary election date is the first [second]
1-10 Tuesday in April following the general primary election.
1-11 (c) The presidential primary election date is the first
1-12 [second] Tuesday in March in each presidential election year.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 172.023(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 (a) An application for a place on the general primary
1-16 election ballot must be filed not later than 6 p.m. on December 26
1-17 [January 2] in the year before the primary election year unless the
1-18 filing deadline is extended under Subchapter C.
1-19 SECTION 3. The term of a person who is serving as a county or
1-20 precinct chair of a political party on the effective date of this
1-21 Act ends on the 20th day after the first Tuesday in April 2004.
1-22 SECTION 4. The secretary of state by rule shall modify
1-23 applicable procedures, dates, and deadlines in the Election Code to
1-24 implement the changes in primary election dates made by this Act.
2-1 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.