Tex. Elec. Code § 163.004 · Chapter 163. PARTY RULES
ADOPTING RULES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A political party's rules, including amendments to rules, governing or affecting its general or runoff primary elections, conventions held under this code, or nominees may be adopted only by:
(1) a state convention; or
(2) the state executive committee as:
(A) a temporary rule, if adoption before the next state convention is necessary; or
(B) a permanent rule, if the state executive committee is expressly required or authorized by statute to adopt a rule.
(b) A temporary rule must be considered by the first state convention following its adoption. The state convention may rescind, modify, or ratify the temporary rule. If the state convention fails to act, the temporary rule expires on the day after the date the convention adjourns.
(c) In this chapter, "rule on electoral affairs" means a rule or amendment of the class described by Subsection (a).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1986, 69th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 14, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1054 (H.B. 3102), Sec. 6, eff. June 14, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.163.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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