By: Blanco S.B. No. 914
(In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2025; February 13, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 10, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 10, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 914 By: Bettencourt
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which
their general election for officers is held.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The governing body of a city with a population of 9,000
or less, located predominantly in a county that has a total area of
less than 6,200 square miles, that has adopted a council-manager
form of government and that holds its general election for officers
on a date other than the November uniform election date may, not
later than December 31, 2026, change the date on which it holds its
general election for officers to the November uniform election
date. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to the change of an
election date under this subsection. This subsection expires
January 1, 2027.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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