Bill Text: TX HB2959 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the required transfer of records to a new county chair of a political party; providing a penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2959 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2959-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 2959
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011;
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 10, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
May 10, 2011, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2959 By: Fraser

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required transfer of records to a new county chair
of a political party; providing a penalty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 171.028, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
(c) A person commits an offense if the person fails to
transfer records as required by Subsection (a).
(d) An offense under Subsection (c) is a Class C
misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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