85R20069 ADM-D
 
  By: Reynolds H.B. No. 1893
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1893:
 
  By:  Israel C.S.H.B. No. 1893
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an election services contract between a county
  elections administrator and a political party.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 31.092(b), (d), and (e), Election Code,
  are transferred to Section 31.093, Election Code, redesignated as
  Sections 31.093(c), (d), and (e), Election Code, respectively, and
  amended to read as follows:
         (c) [(b)]  On request of the county chair of a political
  party holding a primary election in the county, the [The] county
  election officer shall [may] contract with the county executive
  committee of the [a political] party [holding a primary election in
  the county] to perform election services, as provided by this
  subchapter, in the party's general primary election and [or] runoff
  primary election in accordance with a cost schedule agreed on by the
  contracting parties[, or both].
         (d)  In a contract required [authorized] by Subsection (c) 
  [(b)], the county election officer may not prevent the county chair
  or the chair's designee from supervising the conduct of the primary
  election, including the tabulation of results, as required by
  Chapter 172.
         (e)  A [If a] county election officer [enters into a contract
  with a county executive committee under Subsection (b) to perform
  election services, the officer] must offer to contract on the same
  terms with the county executive committee of each political party
  holding a primary election in the county.
         SECTION 2.  Section 31.093(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  If requested to do so by a political subdivision [or
  political party], the county elections administrator shall enter
  into a contract to furnish the election services requested, in
  accordance with a cost schedule agreed on by the contracting
  parties.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.