By: Aycock H.B. No. 334
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to
  certain county chairs regarding certain election activities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is
  amended by adding Section 31.124 to read as follows:
         Sec. 31.124.  PROVISION OF NOTICE TO COUNTY CHAIRS BY
  ELECTION AUTHORITY. (a)  In this section, "election authority" 
  means the county clerk or secretary of the governing body of a
  political subdivision other than a county or city or the authority
  performing the duties of a secretary for that political subdivision
  under this code.
         (b)  Each election authority shall deliver written notice of
  the time and place of any meeting concerning an election called by
  the election authority not later than the fourth day before the
  meeting date to the county chair of each political party that made
  nominations by primary election for the general election for state
  and county officers preceding the date of the meeting.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2009.