TX SB2743

Allows judges to disqualify district or county attorneys from election law cases if they have adopted or follow a policy of consistently refusing to prosecute election law violations

Requires judges to appoint an assistant attorney general to handle election cases when the local prosecutor is disqualified, with no additional compensation provided to the attorney general's office for these duties

Enables residents who have lived in a Texas county for at least six months to file a petition seeking disqualification of their district or county attorney (or one in an adjacent county) from election cases based on a pattern of non-prosecution

Allows residents to petition for referral of election law violation investigations to the attorney general's office before charges are filed, if they can demonstrate the local prosecutor has a practice of declining such prosecutions

Applies only to offenses committed on or after September 1, 2025