H.B. No. 3456

	AN ACT
	relating to the composition of a district executive committee of a
	political party.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 171.054, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 171.054.  COMMITTEE COMPOSITION: DISTRICT SITUATED IN
	MORE THAN ONE COUNTY; FIRST MEETING. (a) The district executive
	committee for a district situated in more than one county consists
	of the members of each county executive committee who reside in the
	district [:
	[(1)     the county chair of each county that is wholly
	situated in the district; and
	[(2)     one precinct chair from each county that is only
	partly situated in the district, elected by and from among the
	precinct chairs of the precincts in that part of the county].
	(b)  The [Except as provided by Subsection (c), the] state
	[county] chair shall call a meeting of the district executive
	committee to convene either as a whole in one location or separately
	in each county in the district at any time after the precinct chairs
	take office to fill a vacancy in a nomination or to transact any
	other business by the committee [elect the precinct chair who is to
	serve on a district executive committee]. The state [county] chair
	shall notify the members of the district executive committee
	[appropriate precinct chairs] in advance of the [meeting of its]
	time, place, and purpose of any meeting or meetings. [Not later
	than the third day after the date the district executive committee
	member is elected, the county chair shall deliver to the state chair
	written notice of the name and address of the person elected.]
	(c)  If a vacancy exists in the office of senatorial district
	[precinct] chair for a county [on a senatorial district executive
	committee] immediately before the date for conducting the regular
	drawing for a place on the general primary ballot, the appropriate
	county executive committee members [precinct chairs] shall convene
	on that date at the hour and place specified by the county chair to
	elect that officer.
	(d)  If the district executive committee is meeting as a
	whole in one location, the [The] members of the [a district
	executive] committee shall elect a chair at the committee's first
	meeting from among the committee membership. If the district
	executive committee is meeting separately in each county, the
	members meeting in each county shall elect a chair at the
	committee's first meeting from among the committee membership in
	that county.
	(e)  For the purposes of filling a vacancy in a nomination,
	the [The] state chair shall canvass the votes of the district
	executive committee when meeting separately in each county and make
	the certification required by Section 145.037 [call the first
	meeting of the district executive committee and shall notify each
	committee member in advance of the meeting of its time, place, and
	purpose].
	(f)  The state executive committee shall by rule determine
	the quorum requirements for a district executive committee to
	conduct business.
	(g)  The state executive committee may by rule require a
	specific deadline for filling vacancies on a district executive
	committee prior to that committee filling a vacancy in nomination
	for public office, but may not set the deadline for a date later
	than the date that the vacancy in nomination for public office must
	be filled. A rule adopted under this subsection may also include a
	requirement that a county executive committee publicly post on the
	committee's website the names and addresses of district executive
	committee members as of the deadline specified in the rule.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 3456 was passed by the House on May
	15, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 3456 was passed by the Senate on May
	25, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED:  _____________________
	Date
	_____________________
	Governor