81R1010 JRJ-D
 
  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, city secretary, 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 under
  this code.
         (b)  Each election authority shall deliver written notice of
  the time and place of any meeting 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.