88R10844 PRL-D
By: Talarico H.B. No. 2062
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the administration and conduct of elections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 52.092(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f),
Election Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Section 2.053(c) or 2.056(e), for
an election at which offices regularly filled at the general
election for state and county officers are to appear on the ballot,
the offices shall be listed in the following order:
(1) offices of the county government:
(A) precinct offices;
(B) county offices [offices of the federal
government];
(2) offices of the state government:
(A) district offices [statewide offices];
(B) statewide offices [district offices];
(3) offices of the federal [county] government [:
[(A) county offices;
[(B) precinct offices].
(b) Precinct offices [Offices of the federal government]
shall be listed in the following order:
(1) constable [president and vice-president of the
United States];
(2) justice of the peace [United States senator];
(3) county commissioner [United States
representative].
(c) County [Statewide] offices [of the state government]
shall be listed in the following order:
(1) county surveyor [governor];
(2) county school trustee (county with population of
3.3 million or more) [lieutenant governor];
(3) county treasurer [attorney general];
(4) county tax assessor-collector [comptroller of
public accounts];
(5) sheriff and tax assessor-collector [commissioner
of the General Land Office];
(6) sheriff [commissioner of agriculture];
(7) county clerk [railroad commissioner];
(8) district and county clerk [chief justice, supreme
court];
(9) district clerk [justice, supreme court];
(10) county attorney [presiding judge, court of
criminal appeals];
(11) judge, county probate court; [of criminal
appeals]
(12) judge, county criminal court;
(13) judge, county court at law;
(14) county judge.
(d) District offices of the state government shall be listed
in the following order:
(1) criminal district attorney [member, State Board
of Education];
(2) district attorney [state senator];
(3) family district judge [state representative];
(4) criminal district judge [chief justice, court of
appeals];
(5) district judge [justice, court of appeals];
(6) justice, court of appeals [district judge];
(7) chief justice, court of appeals [criminal
district judge];
(8) state representative [family district judge];
(9) state senator [district attorney];
(10) member, State Board of Education [criminal
district attorney].
(e) Statewide [County] offices of the state government
shall be listed in the following order:
(1) judge, court of criminal appeals [county judge];
(2) presiding judge, court of criminal
appeals [judge, county court at law];
(3) justice, supreme court [judge, county criminal
court];
(4) chief justice, supreme court [judge, county
probate court];
(5) railroad commissioner [county attorney];
(6) commissioner of agriculture [district clerk];
(7) commissioner of the General Land Office [district
and county clerk];
(8) comptroller of public accounts [county clerk];
(9) attorney general [sheriff];
(10) lieutenant governor [sheriff and tax
assessor-collector];
(11) governor [county tax assessor-collector;
[(12) county treasurer;
[(13) county school trustee (county with population of
3.3 million or more);
[(14) county surveyor].
(f) Offices of the federal government [Precinct offices]
shall be listed in the following order:
(1) United States representative [county
commissioner];
(2) United States senator [justice of the peace];
(3) president and vice-president of the United
States [constable].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.