Bill Text: TX HR2435 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Resolution 2435

Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 357.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [HR2435 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HR2435-Enrolled.html



	H.R. No. 2435



	R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
	Texas, 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, That House Rule 13,
	Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
	Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
	resolve the differences on House Bill 357 (the requirements to
	access the online tracker of an application for a ballot to be voted
	by mail and to the date of runoff elections) to consider and take
	action on the following matter:
	House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the
	committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house
	or senate version of the bill by adding the following SECTIONS to
	the bill:
	SECTION 1. Section 2.025, Election Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
	follows:
	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or as otherwise
	provided by this code, a runoff election shall be held on a Saturday
	designated by the secretary of state [~~not earlier than the 20th or~~
	~~later than the 45th day after the date the final canvass of the main~~
	~~election is completed~~].
	(e) A date designated by the secretary of state under this
	section for a runoff election:
	(1) must be:
	(A) not earlier than the 30th day after the date
	of the main election; and
	(B) not later than the 45th day after the date of
	the main election; and
	(2) may not:
	(A) be a national or state holiday under Section
	1.006(f); or
	(B) have an early voting period that includes a
	national or state holiday under Section 1.006(f).
	SECTION 3. Section 2.025(b), Election Code, is repealed.
	Explanation: This change is necessary to provide for
	consistency and predictability in determining the date of a runoff
	election.

	Bucy

	______________________________
	Speaker of the House

	I certify that H.R. No. 2435 was adopted by the House on May
	28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 3 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House