Bill Text: TX SB702 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a minimum voter turnout requirement for an election authorizing the issuance of bonds issued by a political subdivision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-22 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB702 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB702-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffines | S.B. No. 702 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 1, 2017; February 21, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
Relations; May 17, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1; | ||
May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 702 | By: Huffines |
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relating to a minimum voter turnout requirement for an election | ||
authorizing the issuance of bonds issued by a political | ||
subdivision. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 2, Election Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 2. VOTE REQUIRED FOR ELECTION [ |
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SECTION 2. Chapter 2, Election Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. TURNOUT REQUIREMENTS | ||
Sec. 2.101. POLITICAL SUBDIVISION BOND ELECTION. An | ||
election held by a political subdivision to authorize the issuance | ||
of bonds has no effect regarding the approval of the bonds unless at | ||
least 15 percent of the registered voters of the political | ||
subdivision vote in the election in which the bond proposition is on | ||
the ballot. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an election held on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
election held before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law in effect when the election was held, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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