By: Hughes S.B. No. 1660
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the qualifications necessary for a political party to
  have the names of its nominees placed on the ballot.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION  1. Sections 181.005(b) and (c), Election Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A political party is entitled to have the names of its
  nominees placed on the ballot, without qualifying under Subsection
  (a), in each subsequent general election following a general
  election in which the party had a nominee for a statewide office who
  received a number of votes equal to at least 10 [five] percent of
  the total number of votes received by all candidates for that
  office.
         (c)  A political party is entitled to have the names of its
  nominees placed on the general election ballot, without qualifying
  under Subsection (a) or (b), if the party had a nominee for a
  statewide office who received a number of votes equal to at least 10
  [two] percent of the total number of votes received by all
  candidates for that office at least once in the five previous
  general elections.
         SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.