82R9633 ATP-D
 
  By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1418
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to filling certain vacancies on the governing body of
  certain home-rule municipalities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 26.045, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 26.045.  FILLING VACANCY ON GOVERNING BODY OF
  MUNICIPALITY WITH POPULATION OF 1.5 MILLION OR MORE. (a) Except as
  provided by Subsection (b), if [If] a vacancy occurs on the
  governing body of a municipality with a population of 1.5 million or
  more and more than 270 days remain before the date of the next
  general election of members of the governing body, the governing
  body shall order a special election in the district in which the
  vacancy occurred, or in the entire municipality if the vacancy
  occurred in an at-large position, to fill the vacancy. The special
  election shall be held on an authorized uniform election date
  prescribed by the Election Code that occurs before the general
  election and that allows enough time to hold the election in the
  manner required by law and shall be conducted in the same manner as
  the municipality's general election except as provided by
  provisions of the Election Code applicable to special elections to
  fill vacancies.
         (b)  This section does not apply to a municipality that has
  provided by charter or charter amendment a different procedure to
  fill a vacancy on its governing body for which the unexpired term is
  24 months or less.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on the date on which the
  constitutional amendment proposed by the 82nd Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2011, authorizing a home-rule municipality to provide in
  its charter the procedure to fill a vacancy on its governing body
  for which the unexpired term is 24 months or less, is approved by
  the voters. If that amendment is not approved by the voters, this
  Act has no effect.