2005 Texas Government Code CHAPTER 2058. RECOGNITION OF FEDERAL CENSUS

GOVERNMENT CODE

CHAPTER 2058. RECOGNITION OF FEDERAL CENSUS


	§ 2058.001. GOVERNMENTAL RECOGNITION OF AND ACTION ON 
FEDERAL CENSUS.  (a) A governmental entity may not recognize or act 
on a report or publication, in any form, of a federal decennial 
census, in whole or in part, before September 1 of the year after 
the calendar year during which the census was taken.
	(b)  A governmental entity shall recognize and act on a 
published report or count relating to a federal decennial census 
and released by the director of the Bureau of the Census of the 
United States Department of Commerce:
		(1)  on September 1 of the year after the calendar year 
during which the census was taken if the report or count is 
published on or before that date;  or
		(2)  on the date of its publication if the report or 
count is published after September 1 of the year after the calendar 
year during which the census was taken.
	(c)  In this section, "governmental entity" means the state 
or an agency or political subdivision of the state.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.           


	§ 2058.002. EXCEPTIONS.  (a) The legislature or the 
Legislative Redistricting Board under Article III, Section 28, of 
the Texas Constitution may officially recognize or act on a federal 
decennial census before September 1 of the year after the calendar 
year during which the census was taken.
	(b)  A political subdivision governed by a body elected from 
single-member districts may recognize and act on tabulations of 
population of a federal decennial census, for redistricting 
purposes, on or after the date the governor receives a report of the 
basic tabulations of population from the secretary of commerce 
under 13 U.S.C. Section 141(c).  This subsection does not apply to a 
political subdivision that was not subject to a statute requiring 
certain political subdivisions, classified by population, to elect 
their governing bodies from single-member districts under the 
preceding federal census.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.