Bill Text: TX HB2917 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to impose term limits on certain elected officials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-05 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2917-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to impose term limits on certain elected officials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-05 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2917 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2917-Introduced.html
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By: Alvarado | H.B. No. 2917 |
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relating to the authority of certain municipalities to impose term | ||
limits on the members of their governing bodies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 26, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 26.048 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 26.048. TERM LIMITS IN POPULOUS MUNICIPALITIES. (a) | ||
This section applies only to a municipality with a population of 1.8 | ||
million or more. | ||
(b) In this section: | ||
(1) "Governing body of a municipality" includes the | ||
presiding officer of the municipality. | ||
(2) "Municipal term limit" means a provision in a | ||
municipal charter or ordinance that imposes a limit on the number of | ||
terms or otherwise restricts the length of service a member of the | ||
governing body of a municipality may serve on the governing body. | ||
(c) The presiding officer of a municipality shall order an | ||
election in the municipality on the first uniform election date in | ||
November that occurs in an even-numbered year after this section | ||
becomes applicable to the municipality on the question of imposing | ||
term limits of a maximum of two four-year terms on the members of | ||
the governing body of the municipality. | ||
(d) The ballot at the election must be printed to permit | ||
voting for or against the proposition: "Authorizing term limits | ||
consisting of a maximum of two four-year terms on a person's service | ||
on the governing body of the City of (insert name of municipality)." | ||
(e) If a majority of the votes received at the election | ||
favor the proposition, the number and length of terms a person may | ||
serve on the governing body is limited to a maximum of two four-year | ||
terms. The municipality shall adjust the length of the terms of the | ||
members of the governing body as necessary to comply with the | ||
proposition. | ||
(f) If less than a majority of the votes received at the | ||
election favor the proposition, municipal term limits and the | ||
length of the terms of the members of the governing body that | ||
existed before the election are not affected. | ||
(g) In applying a term limit authorized by this section: | ||
(1) a term to which a member of the governing body was | ||
elected or appointed before the election held under Subsection (c) | ||
is counted only if the member served one-half or more of the term; | ||
and | ||
(2) a partial term to which a member of the governing | ||
body is elected or appointed on or after the date of the election | ||
held under Subsection (c) is counted only if the member serves | ||
one-half or more of the term. | ||
(h) This section expires January 1, 2017. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |