BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 484 By: Capriglione Elections Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties point out that only two public offices out of over thirty offices that were sought in a recent election year had a qualification for office that required candidates to be registered voters, namely the office of Railroad Commissioner and office of Member, State Board of Education. H.B. 484 seeks to require a candidate running for public office in Texas to be a registered voter. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 484 amends the Election Code to expand the eligibility requirements that a person must meet in order to be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a public elective office in Texas to include a requirement that the person, on a certain date, be registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected. H.B. 484 amends the Government Code to establish that a person may not qualify for a public elective office unless the person is a registered voter. The bill makes this qualification provision inapplicable to an office for which the federal or state constitution prescribes exclusive qualification requirements. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2015.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 484
By: Capriglione
Elections
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 484
By: Capriglione
Elections
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties point out that only two public offices out of over thirty offices that were sought in a recent election year had a qualification for office that required candidates to be registered voters, namely the office of Railroad Commissioner and office of Member, State Board of Education. H.B. 484 seeks to require a candidate running for public office in Texas to be a registered voter.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 484 amends the Election Code to expand the eligibility requirements that a person must meet in order to be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a public elective office in Texas to include a requirement that the person, on a certain date, be registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected. H.B. 484 amends the Government Code to establish that a person may not qualify for a public elective office unless the person is a registered voter. The bill makes this qualification provision inapplicable to an office for which the federal or state constitution prescribes exclusive qualification requirements.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2015.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties point out that only two public offices out of over thirty offices that were sought in a recent election year had a qualification for office that required candidates to be registered voters, namely the office of Railroad Commissioner and office of Member, State Board of Education. H.B. 484 seeks to require a candidate running for public office in Texas to be a registered voter.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 484 amends the Election Code to expand the eligibility requirements that a person must meet in order to be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a public elective office in Texas to include a requirement that the person, on a certain date, be registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected.
H.B. 484 amends the Government Code to establish that a person may not qualify for a public elective office unless the person is a registered voter. The bill makes this qualification provision inapplicable to an office for which the federal or state constitution prescribes exclusive qualification requirements.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2015.