| 1 | | - | By: Hughes, Flores S.B. No. 310 |
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| 2 | | - | Kolkhorst |
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| 1 | + | By: Hughes S.B. No. 310 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025, |
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| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; |
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| 4 | + | March 26, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; March 26, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 7 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 11 | | relating to the determination of a majority vote in certain |
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| 10 | 12 | | elections. |
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| 11 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2, Election Code, is |
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| 13 | 15 | | amended by adding Section 2.0215 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 16 | | Sec. 2.0215. DETERMINATION OF MAJORITY VOTE. (a) In this |
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| 15 | 17 | | section, "preferential voting system" means a voting system which |
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| 16 | 18 | | permits a voter to rank each candidate through a numerical |
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| 17 | 19 | | designation from the candidate the voter favors most to the |
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| 18 | 20 | | candidate the voter favors least. |
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| 19 | 21 | | (b) In an election requiring a majority vote to be elected |
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| 20 | 22 | | to a public or political party office or to receive a political |
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| 21 | 23 | | party's nomination, a candidate must receive more than half of the |
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| 22 | 24 | | votes as originally cast. A majority may not be determined by using |
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| 23 | 25 | | a preferential voting system to reassign votes. |
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| 24 | 26 | | SECTION 2. Section 2.022(b), Election Code, is amended to |
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| 25 | 27 | | read as follows: |
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| 26 | 28 | | (b) Sections 2.0215, 2.023, 2.025, and 2.028 supersede a law |
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| 27 | 29 | | outside this subchapter to the extent of any conflict. |
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| 28 | 30 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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