Bill Text: TX SB380 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the election of the governing body of certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-02 - Referred to State Affairs [SB380 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB380-Introduced.html
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| By: Wentworth | S.B. No. 380 | |
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| relating to the election of the governing body of certain | ||
| municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 26, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 26.048 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.048. CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES WITH POPULATION OF | ||
| 500,000 OR MORE: ELECTION FROM SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS. (a) The | ||
| governing body of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or | ||
| more must consist of a mayor elected at large and at least six | ||
| members elected from single-member districts. A member must reside | ||
| in the district the member represents. | ||
| (b) The municipality may provide for the staggering of the | ||
| terms of the members of the municipality's governing body. | ||
| (c) A single-member district must be compact and consist of | ||
| contiguous territory. To the extent practicable, all single-member | ||
| districts must be of equal population. | ||
| (d) This section does not prevent a municipality from having | ||
| additional members elected to the governing body from the | ||
| municipality at large. | ||
| (e) A municipality must comply with this section beginning | ||
| with the first general election of members to the municipality's | ||
| governing body that occurs after the year in which the federal | ||
| decennial census indicates that the municipality meets the | ||
| population requirements of Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. A municipality to which Section 26.048, Local | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act, applies on the effective date | ||
| of this Act must comply with the requirements of that section | ||
| beginning with the first general election of members to the | ||
| municipality's governing body that occurs after December 31, 2011. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2011. | ||
