By: Bonnen of Galveston, et al. H.B. No. 2027
(Senate Sponsor - Hancock)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015;
May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 18, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 18, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to establishing precincts for elections held on a uniform
election date by certain political subdivisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.002, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(a) The county election precincts are the election
precincts for the following elections:
(1) the general election for state and county
officers;
(2) a special election ordered by the governor;
(3) a primary election;
(4) a countywide election ordered by the commissioners
court, county judge, or other county authority, except an election
subject to Section 42.062(2); and
(5) as provided by Section 42.0621, any other election
held by [on the November uniform election date of] a political
subdivision on a uniform election date[, other than a district that
is created under Section 52, Article III, or Section 59, Article
XVI, Texas Constitution, and is located in a county with a
population of more than 3.3 million or a county adjacent to a county
with a population of more than 3.3 million].
(c) Subsection (a)(5) does not apply to an election held on
the May uniform election date by a political subdivision that:
(1) conducts early voting by personal appearance at
each permanent or temporary branch polling place on the same days
and during the same hours as voting is conducted at the main early
voting polling place; or
(2) has not established a permanent or temporary
branch early voting polling place.
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 42.0621, Election Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 42.0621. PRECINCTS FOR ELECTIONS HELD ON A UNIFORM
ELECTION DATE [NOVEMBER ELECTION].
SECTION 3. Section 42.0621(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) In an election held on a [the November] uniform election
date, the political subdivisions to which Section 42.002(a)(5)
applies shall use the regular county election precincts.
SECTION 4. Section 43.004(b), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) If a political subdivision holds an election on a [the
November] uniform election date and is required to use the regular
county election precincts, the political subdivision shall
designate as the polling places for the election the regular county
polling places in the county election precincts that contain
territory from the political subdivision.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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