Bill Text: TX SB742 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a requirement for certain entities to enter into a contract for election services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to State Affairs [SB742 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB742-Introduced.html
  88R949 MLH-D
 
  By: Middleton S.B. No. 742
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a requirement for certain entities to enter into a
  contract for election services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 31.092, Election Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 31.092.  CONTRACT FOR ELECTION SERVICES [AUTHORIZED].
         SECTION 2.  Section 31.092(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The county election officer shall [may] contract with
  the governing body of a political subdivision situated wholly or
  partly in the county served by the officer to perform election
  services, as provided by this subchapter, in any election [one or
  more elections] ordered by an authority of the political
  subdivision.
         SECTION 3.  Section 31.093(a), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The [Subject to Section 41.001(d), if requested to do so
  by a political subdivision, the] county elections administrator
  shall enter into an election services [a] contract [to furnish the
  election services requested,] in accordance with a cost schedule
  agreed on by the contracting parties.
         SECTION 4.  Section 42.0621(c), Election Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  This section does not require a political subdivision to
  [contract with a county under Section 31.092 or] hold a joint
  election with a county under Chapter 271.
         SECTION 5.  Section 173.0341(c), Election Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  If the state chair acts as the fiscal agent for a county
  party in accordance with an agreement under this section:
               (1)  the state chair shall deliver the completed
  agreement to the secretary of state;
               (2)  any filing fee received by the county party under
  Subchapter C must be made payable to the state party for deposit in
  the state primary fund not later than five days after receipt of the
  filing fee;
               (3)  the county chair or county executive committee
  shall [make a request in accordance with Section 31.093 to] enter
  into a contract with the county elections administrator to conduct
  primary elections in the county; and
               (4)  Section 173.031 does not apply to the county
  party.
         SECTION 6.  The following provisions of the Election Code
  are repealed:
               (1)  Section 31.0925; and
               (2)  Section 41.001(d).
         SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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