Bill Text: TX SB2258 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB2258 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2258-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2258 | ||
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| relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which | ||
| their general election for officers is held. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 41.0052, Election Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (f) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (c) A home-rule city may implement a [ |
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| members of the governing body at the same election through the | ||
| adoption of a resolution. The change contained in the resolution | ||
| supersedes a city charter provision that requires a different | ||
| general election date or that requires the terms of members of the | ||
| governing body to be staggered. | ||
| (f) The governing body of a city with a population of 9,000 | ||
| or less, located predominantly in a county that has a total area of | ||
| less than 4,800 square miles, that has adopted a council-manager | ||
| form of government and that holds its general election for officers | ||
| on a date other than the November uniform election date may, not | ||
| later than December 31, 2024, change the date on which it holds its | ||
| general election for officers to the November uniform election | ||
| date. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) apply to the change of an | ||
| election date under this subsection. This subsection expires | ||
| January 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2258 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2258 passed the House on | ||
| May 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 11, | ||
| two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
