Tex. Elec. Code § 52.095 · Subchapter D. ORDER OF PARTIES, OFFICES, NAMES, AND PROPOSITIONS ON BALLOT
PROPOSITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the authority ordering an election in which more than one measure is to be voted on shall determine the order in which the propositions are to appear on the ballot.
(b) Each political subdivision's proposition on the ballot shall be assigned a unique number or letter on the ballot as follows:
(1) except as provided by Subdivision (2), for each proposition on the ballot, the authority ordering the election shall assign a letter of the alphabet to the measure that corresponds to its order on the ballot; and
(2) for each proposition on the ballot to be voted on statewide, the authority ordering the election shall assign a number to the measure that corresponds to its order on the ballot.
(c) Each proposition on the ballot must identify the name of the authority ordering the election on the measure.
(d) The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures necessary to implement this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 391 (S.B. 957), Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.52.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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