- (a) An election for the participation of students in kindergarten through 12th grade may be held in conjunction with a general, special, or primary election as provided by this section.
(b) A student election may be ordered by:
- (1) the commissioners court, for a student election held in conjunction with an election ordered by the governor or a county authority;
- (2) the governing body of a political subdivision, for a student election held in conjunction with an election of the political subdivision; or
- (3) the county executive committee, for a student election held in conjunction with a primary election.
- (c) A student election may be held only on election day or the day before election day.
- (d) The authority ordering a student election shall specify in the order each grade that may participate in the election. A student in a specified grade may enter a precinct polling place for the purpose of casting an unofficial ballot in the student election on the same offices and measures that appear on the official ballot.
- (e) The authority ordering a student election shall make the results of that election available to the public but only after the polling places are closed on election day.
- (f) The election officers serving in the official election may not serve in the student election. The authority ordering a student election shall appoint a separate set of election officers to conduct the student election, supervise the participating students, and tabulate and report the results of that election.
- (g) Expenses incurred in the conduct of a student election, including any personnel expenses, may be paid only from private grant funds or donations.
- (h) The secretary of state shall prescribe any procedures necessary to implement this section and ensure that the conduct of a student election does not affect the proper and efficient conduct of a general, special, or primary election.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 887, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.