By: Hughes S.B. No. 310
(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 26, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
Nays 0; March 26, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain
elections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2, Election Code, is
amended by adding Section 2.0215 to read as follows:
Sec. 2.0215. DETERMINATION OF MAJORITY VOTE. (a) In this
section, "preferential voting system" means a voting system which
permits a voter to rank each candidate through a numerical
designation from the candidate the voter favors most to the
candidate the voter favors least.
(b) In an election requiring a majority vote to be elected
to a public or political party office or to receive a political
party's nomination, a candidate must receive more than half of the
votes as originally cast. A majority may not be determined by using
a preferential voting system to reassign votes.
SECTION 2. Section 2.022(b), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) Sections 2.0215, 2.023, 2.025, and 2.028 supersede a law
outside this subchapter to the extent of any conflict.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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