Bill Text: TX SB1419 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a proposition to approve the issuance of bonds or other debt.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to Local Government [SB1419 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1419-Introduced.html
87R826 ADM-F | ||
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1419 |
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relating to a proposition to approve the issuance of bonds or other | ||
debt. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 41.0051 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 41.0051. PROPOSITION FOR APPROVAL OF ISSUANCE OF BONDS | ||
OR OTHER DEBT. (a) A proposition for approval of the issuance of | ||
bonds or other debt shall be submitted to the voters in an election | ||
held on the November uniform election date, except as provided by | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 41.0011(a), an emergency | ||
election under Section 41.0011 at which a proposition described by | ||
Subsection (a) is submitted to the voters shall be held on any | ||
uniform election date. | ||
(c) If a law outside this code requires a proposition | ||
described by Subsection (a) to be submitted to the voters in an | ||
election held on a date other than the November uniform election | ||
date, the authority administering the election shall set the | ||
election date to comply with this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An election ordered before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |