Bill Text: TX HB19 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a vacancy in the office of a legislator due to an absence without official leave.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-08 - Filed [HB19 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB19-Introduced.html
| By: Toth | H.B. No. 19 | |
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| relating to a vacancy in the office of a legislator due to an | ||
| absence without official leave. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 301.074 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 301.074. VACANCY DUE TO EXCESSIVE ABSENCE. A member of | ||
| the legislature vacates the member's office if the member is absent | ||
| from all proceedings of the house of the legislature of which the | ||
| person is a member, without a leave of absence granted by that | ||
| house, for seven consecutive days on which that house meets. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 301.074, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to an absence that occurs on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
