Bill Text: TX SB375 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the composition of districts for the election of members of the Texas Senate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB375 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB375-Enrolled.html
 
 
  S.B. No. 375
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the composition of districts for the election of
  members of the Texas Senate.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to ensure the
  legislature has fulfilled its duty to apportion the state into
  senatorial districts at its first regular session after the
  publication of the Twenty-fourth Decennial Census of the United
  States, as provided by Section 28, Article III, Texas Constitution.
         SECTION 2.  The districts used to elect members of the Texas
  Senate in 2022, established by Chapter 5 (S.B. 4), Acts of the 87th
  Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 2021 (PLANS2168 in the Texas
  Legislature's redistricting system), are hereby ratified and
  adopted as the permanent districts used to elect members of the
  Texas Senate.
         SECTION 3.  The legislature finds that the districts
  described by SECTION 2 of this Act are a continuation of the
  districts used for the election of the members of the Senate of the
  88th Legislature. Accordingly, the legislature finds that
  enactment of this Act does not require a new senate be chosen for
  the 89th Legislature for purposes of Section 3, Article III, Texas
  Constitution. The legislature's findings expressed in this section
  are consistent with the opinion of the court of appeals in
  Armbrister v. Morales, 943 S.W.2d 202 (Tex. App.-Austin 1997, no
  pet.).
         SECTION 4.  The districts described by SECTION 2 of this Act
  apply to the election of the members of the Texas Senate beginning
  with the primary and general elections in 2024 for members of the
  89th Legislature. This Act does not affect the membership or
  districts of the Senate of the 88th Texas Legislature.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 375 passed the Senate on
  April 3, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 23, Nays 7.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 375 passed the House on
  May 22, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 86, Nays 57,
  one present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor
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