Bill > HB4705

This bill introduces new provisions related to the prosecution of election law violations in Texas. Specifically, the bill allows a judge to declare a district or county attorney disqualified from prosecuting an election law case if the attorney has a policy or practice of consistently refusing to prosecute such violations. In such cases, the attorney general is authorized to step in and prosecute the election law offense under an appointment made through existing legal procedures. The bill applies only to offenses committed on or after its effective date of September 1, 2025, meaning that for any election law violations that occurred before this date, the previous legal standards will continue to apply. The key purpose of this legislation appears to be ensuring that election law violations can be prosecuted even if a local prosecutor declines to do so, by empowering the state attorney general to take over such cases when a local attorney is deemed uncooperative.

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