Bill Text: TX HB4621 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority to cancel certain elections on a measure.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4621 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4621-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority to cancel certain elections on a measure.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4621 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4621-Engrossed.html
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By: Bhojani, Manuel, Capriglione, Bucy, | H.B. No. 4621 | |
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relating to the authority to cancel certain elections on a measure. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 2.081, Election Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2.081. CANCELLATION OF [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 2.081, Election Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) and amending Subsections (b) and | ||
(c) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) Not later than the 74th day before election day, the | ||
authority that ordered an election on a measure may cancel the | ||
election on the measure if not earlier than the 90th day before the | ||
election on the measure, the governor issues a disaster declaration | ||
under Chapter 418, Government Code, covering an area within the | ||
authority's jurisdiction. | ||
(a-2) If an election on a measure required following the | ||
submission of a petition signed by a number of registered voters is | ||
canceled under Subsection (a-1), the authority that ordered the | ||
election shall order a new election on the measure for the first | ||
available uniform election day after the canceled election. | ||
(b) If an election on a measure is canceled or the measure is | ||
removed from the ballot [ |
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post notice of the cancellation or removal [ |
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early voting by personal appearance and on election day, at each | ||
polling place that would have been used for the election on the | ||
measure. | ||
(c) A county election officer, as defined by Section 31.091, | ||
may use a single combined notice of cancellation under Subsection | ||
(b) for all authorities: | ||
(1) for which the officer provides election services | ||
under contract; and | ||
(2) that cancel an election on a measure or remove a | ||
measure from the ballot [ |
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(a) or (a-1). | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2023. |