Bill Text: TX SB375 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing a voter in a party primary notice of party conventions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-01 - Referred to State Affairs [SB375 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB375-Introduced.html
85R849 SRS-D | ||
By: Taylor of Collin | S.B. No. 375 |
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relating to providing a voter in a party primary notice of party | ||
conventions. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.003(b)(1), Election Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Electioneering" includes the posting, use, or | ||
distribution of political signs or literature. The term does not | ||
include the distribution of a notice of a party convention | ||
authorized under Section 172.1114. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 162.004(c), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) If a voter is accepted to vote without presenting a | ||
registration certificate, the presiding judge shall issue the voter | ||
an affiliation certificate. The certificate is not required to be | ||
issued to a voter in a runoff primary unless the voter requests it. | ||
An affiliation certificate issued under this subsection may be | ||
combined with the notice provided under Section 172.1114. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 172, Election Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 172.1114 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 172.1114. DISTRIBUTION OF NOTICE OF CONVENTIONS. (a) | ||
A political party may prepare a notice not larger than letter-sized | ||
for distribution to each voter participating in the party's primary | ||
election at the time the voter is accepted for voting by personal | ||
appearance. | ||
(b) The notice may include: | ||
(1) information describing the party's convention | ||
process; | ||
(2) information detailing the time and place of the | ||
party's first level convention process; | ||
(3) contact information for the county and state | ||
political parties; and | ||
(4) website links for information and registration for | ||
party conventions. | ||
(c) The state chair of a political party shall prescribe a | ||
form for a notice approved by the secretary of state that may be | ||
used in any county. | ||
(d) A county chair of a political party that elects to | ||
distribute a notice prepared under this section shall supply a | ||
notice to the authority conducting the election not later than the | ||
45th day before the date early voting by personal appearance | ||
begins. | ||
(e) The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures and | ||
adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2017. |