Bill Text: TX SB1548 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for a petition proposing an amendment to the charter of a home-rule municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - Filed [SB1548 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB1548-Introduced.html

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89R1603 AMF-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1548

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirements for a petition proposing an amendment
to the charter of a home-rule municipality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 9.004(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Section 9.0045, the governing body
of a municipality on its own motion may submit a proposed charter
amendment to the municipality's qualified voters for their approval
at an election. The governing body shall submit a proposed charter
amendment to the voters for their approval at an election if the
submission is supported by a petition signed by a number of
qualified voters of the municipality equal to at least five percent
of the number of qualified voters of the municipality [or 20,000,
whichever number is the smaller].
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a petition proposing a charter amendment that is submitted to a
municipality on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.