Bill Text: TX HB15 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to dates of certain elections to be held in 2022.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Constitutional Rights & Remedies [HB15 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB15-Introduced.html
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| By: Hunter | H.B. No. 15 | |
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| relating to dates of certain elections to be held in 2022. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 41.0075 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 41.0075. PRIMARY ELECTION: TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) | ||
| This section supersedes any conflicting statute with respect to a | ||
| primary election to be held in 2022. | ||
| (b) For the purposes of this section, a redistricting plan | ||
| "becomes law" on the earlier of: | ||
| (1) the date the governor signs an Act of the 87th | ||
| Legislature relating to the composition of the State Board of | ||
| Education, state legislative, or federal congressional districts; | ||
| or | ||
| (2) the date on which the time for gubernatorial | ||
| action on an Act of the 87th Legislature relating to the composition | ||
| of the State Board of Education, state legislative, or federal | ||
| congressional districts expires under Section 14, Article IV, Texas | ||
| Constitution. | ||
| (c) If a redistricting plan adopted following the 2020 | ||
| federal census by the 87th Legislature that includes a State Board | ||
| of Education, state legislative, or federal congressional district | ||
| becomes law: | ||
| (1) on or before November 22, 2021, the following | ||
| dates related to the primary election for the election of officers | ||
| for the district shall apply: | ||
| (A) an application for a place on the general | ||
| primary election ballot must be filed not earlier than November 29, | ||
| 2021, and not later than 6 p.m. on December 13, 2021; | ||
| (B) the general primary election date is March 1, | ||
| 2022; and | ||
| (C) the runoff primary election date is May 24, | ||
| 2022; | ||
| (2) after November 22, 2021, and on or before January | ||
| 3, 2022, the following dates related to the primary election for the | ||
| election of officers for the district shall apply: | ||
| (A) an application for a place on the general | ||
| primary election ballot must be filed not earlier than January 10, | ||
| 2022, and not later than 6 p.m. on January 24, 2022; | ||
| (B) the general primary election date is April 5, | ||
| 2022; and | ||
| (C) the runoff primary election date is June 21, | ||
| 2022; and | ||
| (3) after January 3, 2022, and on or before February | ||
| 14, 2022, the following dates related to the primary election for | ||
| the election of officers for the district shall apply: | ||
| (A) an application for a place on the general | ||
| primary election ballot must be filed not earlier than February 21, | ||
| 2022, and not later than 6 p.m. on March 7, 2022; | ||
| (B) the general primary election date is May 24, | ||
| 2022; and | ||
| (C) the runoff primary election date is July 26, | ||
| 2022. | ||
| (d) If a plan for a State Board of Education, state | ||
| legislative, or federal congressional district becomes law on dates | ||
| included under more than one subdivision of Subsection (c), the | ||
| latest dates provided for the filing period and the general and | ||
| runoff primary elections of all of the subdivisions applicable to | ||
| the effective date of a plan shall apply. The county chair shall | ||
| conduct the drawing to determine the order of the candidates' names | ||
| on the general primary election ballot in accordance with Section | ||
| 172.082(c) after the date of the applicable filing deadline. | ||
| (e) If a redistricting plan to which this section applies | ||
| has not become law on or before February 14, 2022, the secretary of | ||
| state shall set the dates of the filing period and the general and | ||
| runoff primary elections for the election of officers of the | ||
| districts to which this section applies. In setting dates under | ||
| this section, the secretary of state shall ensure the efficient and | ||
| orderly administration of elections and shall, to the extent | ||
| practicable, set dates in a manner that allows the same interval of | ||
| time in relation to the date of the election as would be provided by | ||
| the application of other law. | ||
| (f) A date set for the general primary election under | ||
| Subsection (c) or (d) shall be the date of any general or primary | ||
| election held under this code. | ||
| (g) Except as provided by this section, the secretary of | ||
| state shall adjust the schedule for canvassing election returns, | ||
| declaring results, or performing any other official act relating to | ||
| an election held on a date under this section as necessary for the | ||
| efficient and orderly administration of the election. To the | ||
| extent practicable, the secretary of state shall adjust schedules | ||
| under this subsection in a manner that allows the same interval of | ||
| time in relation to the date of the election as would be provided by | ||
| the application of other law. | ||
| (h) This section expires January 1, 2023. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
