S.B. No. 1398

	AN ACT
	relating to rules governing the allocation of delegates to a
	political party's national presidential nominating convention.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 191.007, Election Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 191.007.  ALLOCATION OF DELEGATES.  (a)  Each political
	party holding a presidential primary election shall adopt a rule
	for allocating delegates [based on the results of the presidential
	primary election].
	(b)  A rule adopted under this section may utilize either a
	proportional or winner-take-all method, based on the results of the
	presidential primary election, which may be based on:
	(1)  a direct tie to statewide popular vote totals;
	(2)  a direct tie to congressional or state senatorial
	district popular vote totals; or
	(3)  an alternative disproportionate method that is
	based on statewide, congressional district, or state senatorial
	district popular vote totals.
	(c)  Subsection (b) does not apply to delegates allocated:
	(1)  among party and elected officials; or
	(2)  through an allocation based on participants
	registering for or attending a caucus or similar process, provided
	that at [At] least 75 percent of the total number of delegates who
	are to represent this state at the party's national presidential
	nominating convention, excluding delegates allocated among party
	and elected officials, shall be allocated in accordance with the
	rule adopted under this section based on the results of the
	presidential primary election [among one or more of the candidates
	whose names appear on the presidential primary election ballot and,
	if applicable, the uncommitted status].
	SECTION 2.  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.  If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1398 passed the Senate on
	April 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1398 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 141,
	Nays 4, two present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	______________________________
	Governor