85R2557 ATP-D
By: Taylor of Collin S.B. No. 2010
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to procedures for the determination of the validity of
certain petitions filed in connection with an election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 277, Election Code, is amended by adding
Sections 277.005 and 277.006 to read as follows:
Sec. 277.005. PETITION FORM. (a) The secretary of state
may adopt a petition form that may be used for a petition authorized
or required to be filed by a law outside this code.
(b) The authority to which a petition using the form adopted
under Subsection (a) is submitted may not invalidate a petition
because the petition did not contain information required by
Section 277.002(a)(1) that the petition form failed to provide or
to require to be provided.
Sec. 277.006. CERTIFICATION OF VOTERS BY SECRETARY OF
STATE. (a) The authority to which a petition is submitted shall
provide the petition to the secretary of state for certification
under Subsection (b).
(b) The secretary of state shall certify whether the signers
of a petition provided to the secretary under Subsection (a) are
registered voters of the applicable territory and shall deliver the
results of the certification to the authority.
(c) An authority may not invalidate a petition signature
based on the signer's ineligibility to sign the petition if the
secretary of state certified the signer under this section.
SECTION 2. Section 277.006, Election Code, as added by this
Act, applies only to a petition submitted on or after the effective
date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.