| TO: | Honorable Mary Denny, Chair, House Committee on Elections |
| FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB1476 by Truitt (Relating to the election of certain unopposed candidates.), As Introduced |
The bill would allow the secretary of state, for a state or district office, or the county clerk, for a county or precinct office, to declare a candidate in a general election for a state, county, or precinct office as elected if the candidate is the only person who has qualified to appear on the ballot for that office and if write-in votes may be counted from a specific list of write-in candidates, but no names are on the list.
The bill would take effect on the date on which the constitutional amendment proposed by the Seventy-eighth Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, authorizing the legislature to permit a person to take office without an election as described takes effect. If the constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, the bill would have no effect.
| Source Agencies: | 307 Secretary of State
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| LBB Staff: | JK, GO, DLBa
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