Bill Text: TX SB994 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 994 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the declaration of a candidate's ineligibility on the basis of failure to pay a filing fee or submit a petition in lieu of a filing fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB994 Detail]

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	By: Schwertner	S.B. No. 994
	(In the Senate - Filed February 16, 2023; March 3, 2023,
	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	March 13, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
	Nays 0; March 13, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the declaration of a candidate's ineligibility on the
	basis of failure to pay a filing fee or submit a petition in lieu of
	a filing fee.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 145.003(b) and (f), Election Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(b) A candidate in the general election for state and county
	officers may be declared ineligible before the 30th day preceding
	election day by:
	(1) the party officer responsible for certifying the
	candidate's name for placement on the general election ballot, in
	the case of a candidate who is a political party's nominee; [or]
	(2) the authority with whom the candidate's
	application for a place on the ballot is required to be filed, in
	the case of an independent candidate; or
	(3) the secretary of state, if the candidate is
	ineligible under Subsection (f)(3).
	(f) A candidate may be declared ineligible only if:
	(1) the information on the candidate's application for
	a place on the ballot indicates that the candidate is ineligible for
	the office; [or]
	(2) facts indicating that the candidate is ineligible
	are conclusively established by another public record; or
	(3) the candidate fails to pay the filing fee or submit
	a petition in lieu of a filing fee.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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