1. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this code, a runoff election shall be held not earlier than the 20th or later than the 45th day after the date the final canvass of the main election is completed.
2. (b) A runoff election date later than the period prescribed by Subsection (a) may be prescribed by a home-rule city charter.
3. (c) This section supersedes a law outside this subchapter to the extent of a conflict notwithstanding Section 2.022.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 60, Sec. 2, eff. Oct. 20, 1987;

Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 389, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;

Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 728, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1993;

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1316, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 799 (H.B. 357), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.