Bill Text: TX HB88 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to an election ballot.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB88-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to an election ballot.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB88-Introduced.html
86R1713 GRM-F | ||
By: Swanson | H.B. No. 88 |
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relating to the order of candidate names on an election ballot. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2.002(d), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The order of the candidates' names on the ballot shall | ||
be the relative order of names on the original ballot [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 52.094(a) and (c), Election Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, for an election at | ||
which the names of more than one candidate for the same office are | ||
to appear on the ballot in an independent column or are to appear on | ||
a general or special election ballot that does not contain a party | ||
nominee, the order of the candidates' names shall be determined by a | ||
drawing. The order of the candidates' names on the ballot of any | ||
resulting runoff election or election held to resolve a tie vote | ||
shall be the relative order of names on the original election | ||
ballot. | ||
(c) The authority conducting the drawing shall post in the | ||
authority's office a notice of the date, hour, and place of the | ||
drawing. The notice must remain posted continuously for 72 hours | ||
immediately preceding the scheduled time of the drawing[ |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |