Bill Text: TX SB452 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of general-law municipalities to impose term limits on the members of their governing bodies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-15 - Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) [SB452 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB452-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of general-law municipalities to impose term limits on the members of their governing bodies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-15 - Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) [SB452 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB452-Comm_Sub.html
By: Fallon | S.B. No. 452 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2019; February 14, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
Relations; April 1, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 1, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the authority of general-law municipalities to impose | ||
term limits on the members of their governing bodies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Local Government Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 21.006 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.006. TERM LIMITS FOR GOVERNING BODY OF GENERAL-LAW | ||
MUNICIPALITY. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Governing body" includes the presiding officer of | ||
the governing body. | ||
(2) "Municipal term limit" means a limit on the number | ||
of terms of service a member of the governing body of a municipality | ||
may serve on the governing body. | ||
(b) The governing body of a general-law municipality may | ||
order an election to impose, amend, or repeal municipal term | ||
limits. | ||
(c) The ballot at an election for imposing municipal term | ||
limits must be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "Imposing term limits consisting of (insert number of | ||
terms and length of terms) on a person's service on the governing | ||
body of (insert name of municipality)." If a majority of the votes | ||
received at the election favor the proposition, the number of terms | ||
a person may serve on the governing body is limited as provided in | ||
the proposition. | ||
(d) The ballot at an election for amending municipal term | ||
limits must be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "Amending term limits to (insert "increase" or | ||
"decrease") the number of terms a person may serve on the governing | ||
body of (insert name of municipality) by providing for term limits | ||
consisting of (insert number of terms and length of terms) on the | ||
person's service on the governing body." If a majority of the votes | ||
received at the election favor the proposition, the number of terms | ||
a person may serve on the governing body is limited as amended. | ||
(e) The ballot at an election for repealing municipal term | ||
limits must be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "Repealing term limits for a person's service on the | ||
governing body of (insert name of municipality)." If a majority of | ||
the votes received at the election favor the proposition, the | ||
municipal term limits are repealed. | ||
(f) If less than a majority of the votes received at an | ||
election under Subsection (d) or (e) favor the applicable | ||
proposition, municipal term limits that existed before the election | ||
are not affected. | ||
(g) A municipal term limit imposed or amended by an election | ||
held under this section does not apply to a term that a member of the | ||
governing body is serving or was elected or appointed to serve on or | ||
before the date the election was held. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. | ||
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