| 1 | 1 | | By: Hughes S.B. No. 2271 |
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| 3 | 3 | | |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the filing fee required for certain candidates. |
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| 7 | 7 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 8 | 8 | | SECTION 1. Section 172.024, Election Code, is amended to |
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| 9 | 9 | | read as follows: |
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| 10 | 10 | | Sec. 172.024. FILING FEE. (a) The filing fee for a |
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| 11 | 11 | | candidate for nomination in the general primary election is as |
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| 12 | 12 | | follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (1) United States senator$10,000 [$5,000] |
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| 14 | 14 | | (2) office elected statewide, except United States |
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| 15 | 15 | | senator7,500 [3,750] |
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| 16 | 16 | | (3) United States representative6,250 [3,125] |
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| 17 | 17 | | (4) state senator2,500 [1,250] |
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| 18 | 18 | | (5) state representative1,500 [750] |
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| 19 | 19 | | (6) member, State Board of Education600 [300] |
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| 20 | 20 | | (7) chief justice or justice, court of appeals, other |
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| 21 | 21 | | than a justice specified by Subdivision (8)3,750 [1,875] |
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| 22 | 22 | | (8) chief justice or justice of a court of appeals that |
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| 23 | 23 | | serves a court of appeals district in which a county with a |
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| 24 | 24 | | population of more than one million is wholly or partly |
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| 25 | 25 | | situated5,000 [2,500] |
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| 26 | 26 | | (9) district judge or judge specified by Section |
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| 27 | 27 | | 52.092(d) for which this schedule does not otherwise prescribe a |
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| 28 | 28 | | fee3,000 [1,500] |
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| 29 | 29 | | (10) district or criminal district judge of a court in |
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| 30 | 30 | | a judicial district wholly contained in a county with a population |
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| 31 | 31 | | of more than 1.5 million5,000 [2,500] |
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| 32 | 32 | | (11) judge, statutory county court, other than a judge |
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| 33 | 33 | | specified by Subdivision (12)3,000 [1,500] |
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| 34 | 34 | | (12) judge of a statutory county court in a county with |
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| 35 | 35 | | a population of more than 1.5 million5,000 [2,500] |
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| 36 | 36 | | (13) district attorney, criminal district attorney, |
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| 37 | 37 | | or county attorney performing the duties of a district |
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| 38 | 38 | | attorney2,500 [1,250] |
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| 39 | 39 | | (14) county commissioner, district clerk, county |
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| 40 | 40 | | clerk, sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county treasurer, |
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| 41 | 41 | | or judge, constitutional county court: |
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| 42 | 42 | | (A) county with a population of 200,000 or |
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| 43 | 43 | | more2,500 [1,250] |
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| 44 | 44 | | (B) county with a population of under |
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| 45 | 45 | | 200,0001,500 [750] |
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| 46 | 46 | | (15) justice of the peace or constable: |
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| 47 | 47 | | (A) county with a population of 200,000 or |
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| 48 | 48 | | more2,000 [1,000] |
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| 49 | 49 | | (B) county with a population of under |
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| 50 | 50 | | 200,000750 [375] |
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| 51 | 51 | | (16) county surveyor150 [75] |
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| 52 | 52 | | (17) office of the county government for which this |
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| 53 | 53 | | schedule does not otherwise prescribe a fee1,500 [750] |
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| 54 | 54 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |
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