Bill Text: TX HB2327 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a candidate's application for a place on the ballot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB2327 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2327-Comm_Sub.html
85R19104 SRS-F | |||
By: Israel | H.B. No. 2327 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2327: | |||
By: Laubenberg | C.S.H.B. No. 2327 |
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relating to a candidate's application for a place on the ballot. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 141.031(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A candidate's application for a place on the ballot that | ||
is required by this code must: | ||
(1) be in writing; | ||
(2) be signed and sworn to by the candidate and | ||
indicate the date that the candidate swears to the application; | ||
(3) be timely filed with the appropriate authority; | ||
and | ||
(4) include: | ||
(A) the candidate's name; | ||
(B) the candidate's occupation; | ||
(C) the office sought, including any place number | ||
or other distinguishing number; | ||
(D) an indication of whether the office sought is | ||
to be filled for a full or unexpired term if the office sought and | ||
another office to be voted on have the same title but do not have | ||
place numbers or other distinguishing numbers; | ||
(E) a statement that the candidate is a United | ||
States citizen; | ||
(F) a statement that the candidate has not been | ||
determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate | ||
jurisdiction to be: | ||
(i) totally mentally incapacitated; or | ||
(ii) partially mentally incapacitated | ||
without the right to vote; | ||
(G) a statement that the candidate has not been | ||
finally convicted of a felony from which the candidate has not been | ||
pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities; | ||
(H) the candidate's date of birth; | ||
(I) the candidate's residence address or, if the | ||
residence has no address, the address at which the candidate | ||
receives mail and a concise description of the location of the | ||
candidate's residence; | ||
(J) the candidate's length of continuous | ||
residence in the state and in the territory from which the office | ||
sought is elected as of the date the candidate swears to the | ||
application; | ||
(K) the statement: "I, __________, of | ||
__________ County, Texas, being a candidate for the office of | ||
__________, swear that I will support and defend the constitution | ||
and laws of the United States and of the State of Texas"; | ||
(L) a statement that the candidate is aware of | ||
the nepotism law, Chapter 573, Government Code; and | ||
(M) a public mailing address at which the | ||
candidate receives correspondence relating to the candidate's | ||
campaign, if available, and an [ |
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address at which the candidate receives correspondence relating to | ||
the candidate's campaign, if available. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 141.039, Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 141.039. OFFICIAL APPLICATION FORM. In addition to | ||
the other statements and spaces for entering information that | ||
appear on an officially prescribed form for an application for a | ||
place on the ballot, each official form for an application that a | ||
candidate is required to file under this code must include: | ||
(1) a space for indicating the form in which the | ||
candidate's name is to appear on the ballot; | ||
(2) a space for the candidate's public mailing | ||
address; | ||
(3) spaces for the candidate's home and office | ||
telephone numbers and e-mail address at which the candidate | ||
receives correspondence relating to the candidate's campaign; and | ||
(4) a statement informing candidates that the | ||
furnishing of the telephone numbers [ |
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optional. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
141.031(a), Election Code, applies to an application for a place on | ||
the ballot made on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
application for a place on the ballot made before the effective date | ||
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
application is made, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |