Bill Text: TX SB1300 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to clarifying the law regarding municipal voting rights and eligibility for municipal office of residents in areas subject to limited-purpose annexation under strategic partnership agreements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [SB1300 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1300-Introduced.html
  86R2658 JTS-D
 
  By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1300
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to clarifying the law regarding municipal voting rights
  and eligibility for municipal office of residents in areas subject
  to limited-purpose annexation under strategic partnership
  agreements.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 43.0751, Local Government Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (q) and adding Subsection (q-1) to
  read as follows:
         (q)  The qualified voters of a district annexed for limited
  purposes under a strategic partnership agreement are entitled to
  vote in municipal elections as provided by Section 43.130(a) in the
  same manner as qualified voters of any other area annexed for
  limited purposes, and that subsection applies to a limited-purpose
  annexation under a strategic partnership agreement. Residents of a
  district annexed for limited purposes under a strategic partnership
  agreement are not eligible to be a candidate for or to be elected to
  a municipal office as provided by Section 43.130(b).
         (q-1)  Except as provided by Subsection (q) [for Sections
  43.130(a) and (b)], Subchapter F does not apply to a
  limited-purpose annexation under a strategic partnership
  agreement.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act is intended
  only to clarify existing law with respect to the municipal voting
  rights and eligibility for office of residents in areas subject to
  limited-purpose annexation under strategic partnership agreements.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2019.
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