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 | ||
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| 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 | ||
