85R20069 ADM-D
By: Reynolds H.B. No. 1893
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1893:
By: Israel C.S.H.B. No. 1893
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an election services contract between a county
elections administrator and a political party.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 31.092(b), (d), and (e), Election Code,
are transferred to Section 31.093, Election Code, redesignated as
Sections 31.093(c), (d), and (e), Election Code, respectively, and
amended to read as follows:
(c) [(b)] On request of the county chair of a political
party holding a primary election in the county, the [The] county
election officer shall [may] contract with the county executive
committee of the [a political] party [holding a primary election in
the county] to perform election services, as provided by this
subchapter, in the party's general primary election and [or] runoff
primary election in accordance with a cost schedule agreed on by the
contracting parties[, or both].
(d) In a contract required [authorized] by Subsection (c)
[(b)], the county election officer may not prevent the county chair
or the chair's designee from supervising the conduct of the primary
election, including the tabulation of results, as required by
Chapter 172.
(e) A [If a] county election officer [enters into a contract
with a county executive committee under Subsection (b) to perform
election services, the officer] must offer to contract on the same
terms with the county executive committee of each political party
holding a primary election in the county.
SECTION 2. Section 31.093(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) If requested to do so by a political subdivision [or
political party], the county elections administrator shall enter
into a contract to furnish the election services requested, in
accordance with a cost schedule agreed on by the contracting
parties.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.