Bill Text: TX HB920 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to additional primary election ballot information for judicial candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-14 - Left pending in committee [HB920 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB920-Introduced.html
  84R1599 SRS-F
 
  By: Sheets H.B. No. 920
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to additional primary election ballot information for
  judicial candidates.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 172, Election Code, is
  amended by adding Section 172.0861 to read as follows:
         Sec. 172.0861.  ADDITIONAL BALLOT INFORMATION FOR JUDICIAL
  CANDIDATES. (a)  This section applies only to a judicial office
  that appears on the primary or runoff primary election ballot.  This
  section does not apply to a constitutional county judge.
         (b)  A candidate for a judicial office who is the incumbent
  for the office may request that the ballot indicate the candidate's
  incumbency adjacent to the candidate's name.
         (c)  The secretary of state shall prescribe the method and
  manner for including the information described by this section on
  the ballot.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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