By: Keffer H.B. No. 2401 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2401By: Fraser By: Fraser

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2009; May 4, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 14, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the political activities of a person employed by a county elections administrator.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 31.039, Election Code, is amended by amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

(f) Except as provided by Subsection (g), a [A] person employed on a full-time basis by the administrator's office is subject to Section 31.035 in the same manner as the administrator. [This subsection applies only to counties with a population of one million or more that have an election administrator.]

(g) Section 31.035(b) does not apply to a person employed on a full-time basis by the administrator's office in a county with a population of one million or less that has an election administrator.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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