84R4354 ADM-F
By: Rodriguez of Travis H.B. No. 2496
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a filing fee submitted with an application for a place
on a ballot.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 172.021, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) to read as follows:
(b-1) Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the authority
receiving an application shall return it to the applicant as
incomplete if the applicant submits payment of a fee that is
returned for insufficient funds. The applicant may resubmit the
application before the end of the filing period, but payment of the
filing fee may not be made in the form of a check from the same
account as that of the payment previously returned for insufficient
funds.
(b-2) If a payment of a filing fee is returned for
insufficient funds after the end of the filing period, the
application is not considered to be timely filed, and the authority
receiving the application shall inform the applicant that the
application was not valid.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.