Bill Text: TX SB375 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
88R3522 BEF-DPLANS2168 | ||
By: Huffman | 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. |