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| 1 | 1 | By: Aycock H.B. No. 334 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to requiring an election authority to provide notice to | |
| 7 | 7 | certain county chairs regarding certain election activities. | |
| 8 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 9 | SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Election Code, is | |
| 10 | 10 | amended by adding Section 31.124 to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 11 | Sec. 31.124. PROVISION OF NOTICE TO COUNTY CHAIRS BY | |
| 12 | 12 | ELECTION AUTHORITY. (a) In this section, "election authority" | |
| 13 | 13 | means the county clerk or secretary of the governing body of a | |
| 14 | 14 | political subdivision other than a county or city or the authority | |
| 15 | 15 | performing the duties of a secretary for that political subdivision | |
| 16 | 16 | under this code. | |
| 17 | 17 | (b) Each election authority shall deliver written notice of | |
| 18 | 18 | the time and place of any meeting concerning an election called by | |
| 19 | 19 | the election authority not later than the fourth day before the | |
| 20 | 20 | meeting date to the county chair of each political party that made | |
| 21 | 21 | nominations by primary election for the general election for state | |
| 22 | 22 | and county officers preceding the date of the meeting. | |
| 23 | 23 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 24 | 24 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 25 | 25 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 26 | 26 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 27 | 27 | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |