Bill Text: TX SJR41 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a home-rule municipality to provide in its charter the procedure to fill a vacancy on its governing body for which the unexpired term is 24 months or less.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR41 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SJR41-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | S.J.R. No. 41 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a home-rule | ||
| municipality to provide in its charter the procedure to fill a | ||
| vacancy on its governing body for which the unexpired term is 24 | ||
| months or less. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11, Article XI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) A municipality so providing a term exceeding two (2) | ||
| years but not exceeding four (4) years for any of its non-civil | ||
| service officers must elect all of the members of its governing body | ||
| by majority vote of the qualified voters in such municipality.[ |
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| (c) Any vacancy or vacancies occurring on such governing | ||
| body shall not be filled by appointment but must be filled by | ||
| majority vote of the qualified voters at a special election called | ||
| for such purpose within one hundred and twenty (120) days after such | ||
| vacancy or vacancies occur except that the municipality may provide | ||
| by charter or charter amendment the procedure for filling a vacancy | ||
| occurring on its governing body for an unexpired term of 24 months | ||
| or less. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing a | ||
| home-rule municipality to provide in its charter the procedure to | ||
| fill a vacancy on its governing body for which the unexpired term is | ||
| 24 months or less." | ||
