Tex. Gov't Code § 652.024 · Subchapter B. PROHIBITIONS ON FILLING VACANCIES
EXCEPTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Section 652.023 does not apply to:
(1) an incumbent governor if the secretary of state proclaims that, according to the secretary's count of returns from the general election, the governor is reelected; or
(2) a vacancy that:
(A) first occurs after October 1 preceding the transition period and before the transition period begins;
(B) is caused by the death of the officeholder; and
(C) would not have occurred during the period described by Paragraph (A) by the expiration of the officeholder's term of office.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.652.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
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