By:  Goodman (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                            H.B. No. 296
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2003; 
April 7, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on State 
Affairs; May 15, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 15, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to petition requirements for an application for a place on 
the general primary election ballot for certain judicial 
candidates.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 172.021, Election Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g)  A candidate for the office of chief justice or justice, 
supreme court, or presiding judge or judge, court of criminal 
appeals, who chooses to pay the filing fee must also accompany the 
application with a petition that complies with the requirements 
prescribed for a petition authorized by Subsection (b), except that 
the minimum number of signatures that must appear on the petition 
required by this subsection is 50 from each court of appeals 
district.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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