Bill Text: TX SB1659 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to clarifying the law regarding municipal voting rights and eligibility for municipal office of residents of areas subject to limited-purpose annexation under strategic partnership agreements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Referred to Local Government [SB1659 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1659-Introduced.html
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By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1659 |
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relating to clarifying the law regarding municipal voting rights | ||
and eligibility for municipal office of residents of 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 an area in 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 an area in 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) [ |
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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, 2021. |