By: Sparks S.B. No. 946
(In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2023; March 3, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 6, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 3; April 6, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance
of bonds or a tax increase.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is
amended by adding Section 41.0051 to read as follows:
Sec. 41.0051. ELECTION TO ISSUE BONDS OR INCREASE TAXES.
(a) An election for the issuance of bonds or other debt or a tax
increase shall be held on the November uniform election date.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 41.0011, an election described
by Subsection (a) may not be held as an emergency election under
that section.
(c) If a law outside this code requires an election
described by Subsection (a) to be held on a date other than the
November uniform election date, the authority administering the
election shall set the election date to comply with this section.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.
An election ordered before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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