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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