Tex. Elec. Code § 192.102 · Subchapter D. REQUIRED ACTION BY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS; REPLACEMENT OF ELECTOR
OATH.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Not later than the seventh day before the meeting of electors, each elector nominee and alternate elector nominee of a political party shall execute the following oath: "If selected for the position of elector, I swear to serve and to mark my ballots for president and vice president for the nominees for those offices of the party that nominated me."
(b) Not later than the sixth day before the meeting of electors, each elector nominee and alternate elector nominee of an independent presidential candidate shall execute the following oath: "If selected for the position of elector as a nominee of an independent presidential candidate, I swear to serve and to mark my ballots for that candidate and for that candidate's vice-presidential running mate."
(c) The executed oaths must accompany the submission of the corresponding names to the secretary of state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 998 (H.B. 87), Sec. 8, eff. June 18, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.192.htm
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- 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
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Elec. Code § 192.102. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Election Code
- Tex. Elec. Code § 192.065CERTIFICATION OF WINNING CANDIDATE'S INABILITY TO SERVE; AFFIRMATION OR DENIAL BY ELECTORS.Printed as Sections 192.102, 192.103(b), 192.103(d), and 192.104(d)
- Tex. Elec. Code § 192.103PRESIDING OFFICER; ELECTOR VACANCY.Printed as Section 192.102
- Tex. Elec. Code § 192.104ELECTOR VOTING.Printed as Section 192.102 or 192.103(d)
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