Bill Text: TX HB1136 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to certain county chairs regarding certain election activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1136-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1136 | ||
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| relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to | ||
| certain county chairs regarding certain election activities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 31.124 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.124. PROVISION OF NOTICE TO COUNTY CHAIRS BY | ||
| ELECTION AUTHORITY. (a) A county election officer of each county | ||
| shall hold a meeting with the county chair of each political party | ||
| to discuss, as appropriate, the following for each primary election | ||
| or general election for state and county officers: | ||
| (1) the lists provided by each political party under | ||
| Section 85.009; | ||
| (2) the lists provided by each political party under | ||
| Section 87.002(c); and | ||
| (3) the implementation of Subchapters A, B, C, and D, | ||
| Chapter 87. | ||
| (b) A county election officer of each county shall deliver | ||
| written notice of the time and place of the meeting required by | ||
| Subsection (a) not later than 72 hours before the meeting date to | ||
| the county chair of each political party that made nominations by | ||
| primary election for the general election for state and county | ||
| officers preceding the date of the meeting. | ||
| (c) The notice required by Subsection (b) may be delivered | ||
| by United States mail, electronic mail, or other method of written | ||
| communication, as determined by the county election officer. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1136 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 14, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1136 on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1136 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
