By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1085
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the certification of unopposed candidates for the board
  of directors of the North Harris County Regional Water Authority.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 2, Chapter 1029, Acts of the 76th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended by adding Section
  2.08 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2.08.  ACTION ON CERTIFICATION OF UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES.
  (a)  On receipt of the certification required by Section 2.052,
  Election Code, the board may declare each unopposed candidate for
  the board elected to the office.
         (b)  If a declaration is made under Subsection (a), the
  election is not held for that candidate's voting district.
         (c)  The ballots used at a separate election held at the same
  time as an election that would have been held if the candidates were
  not declared elected under this section shall include the offices
  and names of the candidates declared elected under this section
  listed separately after the measures or contested races in the
  separate election under the heading "Unopposed Candidates Declared
  Elected." The candidates shall be grouped in the same relative
  order prescribed for the ballot generally. No votes are cast in
  connection with the candidates.
         (d)  The secretary of state by rule may prescribe any
  additional procedures necessary to accommodate a particular voting
  system or ballot style and to facilitate the efficient and
  cost-effective implementation of this section.
         (e)  A certificate of election shall be issued to each
  candidate in the same manner and at the same time as provided for a
  candidate elected at the election. The candidate must qualify for
  the office in the same manner as provided for a candidate elected at
  the election.
         (f)  Section 2.053, Election Code, does not apply to an
  election for the board of directors of the authority.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.