Bill Text: TX HB1000 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1000

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Bill Title: Relating to the composition of districts for the election of members of the Texas House of Representatives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1000 Detail]

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	By: Darby (Senate Sponsor - Huffman)	H.B. No. 1000
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
	May 1, 2023, read first time and referred to Special Committee on
	Redistricting; May 4, 2023, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; May 4, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the composition of districts for the election of
	members of the Texas House of Representatives.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to ensure the
	legislature has fulfilled its duty to apportion the state into
	representative districts at its first regular session after the
	publication of the Twenty-fourth Decennial Census of the United
	States, as provided by Section 28, Article III, Texas Constitution.
	SECTION 2. The districts used to elect members of the Texas
	House of Representatives in 2022, established by Chapter 1 (H.B.
	1), Acts of the 87th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 2021
	(PLANH2316 in the Texas Legislature's redistricting system), are
	hereby ratified and adopted as the districts used to elect members
	of the Texas House of Representatives.
	SECTION 3. The districts described by Section 2 of this Act
	apply to the election of the members of the Texas House of
	Representatives beginning with the primary and general elections in
	2024 for members of the 89th Legislature. This Act does not affect
	the membership or districts of the Texas House of Representatives
	of the 88th Texas Legislature.
	SECTION 4. 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.

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