TITLE: Relating to a vacancy in the office of senator or representative due to excessive absence.

SUMMARY: Relating to a vacancy in the office of senator or representative due to excessive absence.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to a vacancy in the office of senator or representative due to excessive absence. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 201, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 201.031 to read as follows: Sec. 201.031. FORFEITURE RESULTING FROM EXCESSIVE ABSENCE. If a member of the legislature fails to attend legislative floor sessions called to transact business, without a leave granted by a majority the of the house of which the legislator is a member, a vacancy occurs on: (a) the date of the member's fourteenth such failure to attend, during a Regular Session; or (b) the date of the member's third such failure to attend, during a Special Session. SECTION 2. Section 201.031, Election Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a failure to attend that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.