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CHAPTER 1107
H.B. No. 2309
1 AN ACT
2 relating to certain election processes and procedures.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
4 ARTICLE 1. GENERAL CHANGES IN ELECTION LAW
5 SECTION 1.01. Section 2.051, Election Code, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 Sec. 2.051. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. (a) Except as
8 provided by Sections 2.055 and 2.056, this subchapter applies only
9 to an election for officers of a political subdivision other than a
10 county in which write-in votes may be counted only for names
11 appearing on a list of write-in candidates and in which:
12 (1) each candidate for an office that [whose- name] is
13 to appear on the ballot is unopposed, except as provided by
14 Subsection (b); and
15 (2) no proposition is to appear on the ballot.
16 (b) In the case of an election in which any members of the
17 political subdivision's governing body are elected from
18 territorial units such as single-member districts, this subchapter
19 applies to the election in a particular territorial unit if each
20 candidate for an office that [w~hoe name] is to appear on the ballot
21 in that territorial unit is unopposed and no at-large proposition
22 or opposed at-large race is to appear on the ballot. This
23 subchapter applies to an unopposed at-large race in such an
24 election regardless of whether an opposed race is to appear on the1
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2309, Chapter 1107, legislative document, June 18, 2005; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth156767/m1/1/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.