The Collin County Republican Party Bylaws

Article I: Name The name of this organization shall be the Collin County Republican Party Executive Committee, hereinafter referred to as the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall be the governing body of the Collin County Republican Party. All policies and procedures shall be approved by the Executive Committee.

Article II: Mission Statement The mission of the Executive Committee is to develop and sustain a strong countywide organization that works to elect Republican candidates to public offices; communicate with and educate Republican voters on grassroots advocacy; grow the Republican electorate; and implement the principles and legislative priorities of the Republican Party of Texas, hereinafter referred to as the RPT.

Article III: The Executive Committee

Section 1: The Executive Committee shall be composed of the County Chair and the Precinct Chair elected in each voting precinct in the Republican Primary Election in Collin County or appointed by the Executive Committee to fill a vacancy. The County Chair and each Precinct Chair shall be elected biennially as provided by the RPT Rules. Hereinafter, each Precinct Chair shall be collectively referred to as Precinct Chairs.

Section 2: The voting members of the County Executive Committee are the County Chair and Precinct Chairs. The County Party may adopt rules allowing a State Republican Executive Committee (“SREC”) member who does not live in the same county to be a non-voting ex-officio member. An SREC member who is not the County Chair or a Precinct Chair of the same county may not make motions or vote in that county’s Executive Committee Meetings.

Section 3: The Executive Committee shall exercise those powers and fulfill those duties conferred upon it by the RPT Rules; these Bylaws, and adopted Standing Rules of the Executive Committee, hereinafter referred to as Standing Rules.

Section 4: The Executive Committee shall fill vacancies in the offices of County Chair and Precinct Chair as provided by the RPT Rules.

Section 5: Except for the period beginning upon certification as the Republican Party nominee for an office and ending upon certification of the general election result for that office, no public elected officeholder, candidate for public elected office, or his employees, agents, or contracted personnel may conduct campaign operations out of Executive Committee office space, unless contractually permitted to do so with the approval of the Executive Committee.

Section 6: The Executive Committee shall consider endorsement requests by declared Republican Local Election candidates as long as such endorsement is not in violation or in conflict with the RPT Rules.

Section 7: The County Executive Committee may authorize voting to fill Precinct Chair vacancies via mail or email. For any meeting where online voting is permitted, a vote from an online participant shall have the same force as a vote from an in-person participant.

Section 8: In the event of a stated emergency, as declared by the County Chair, an Executive Committee meeting may be conducted through use of electronic meeting services designated by the County Chair. In the event an Executive Committee meeting is held electronically, the electronic meeting must allow for the real time sharing and viewing of committee documents, including the current motion, any amendments to that motion, and any report that the committee considers. The County Chair may postpone an Executive Committee Meeting for up to 15 days in the event an electronic meeting is not feasible.

Article IV: Officers of the Executive Committee

Section 1: The County Chair shall nominate the following officers to serve the Executive Committee, subject to ratification by the Executive Committee: First Vice Chair, Second Vice Chair, Third Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, General Counsel, and Parliamentarian. These officers shall be nominated at the first meeting of the newly elected Executive Committee, but in no case shall the appointments be delayed beyond forty-five (45) calendar days from the commencement of the current term for the County Chair. Additionally, the County Chair may appoint and define the duties of other officers subject to approval by the Executive Committee. All appointed officers must have voted in the last Republican Primary. The appointed officers need not be members of the Executive Committee.

Section 2: The appointed officers shall perform the duties prescribed by the Bylaws and the Standing Rules.

Section 3: The term of office of the County Chair begins twenty (20) days after the primary runoff election and ends twenty (20) days after the succeeding primary runoff election. The appointed officers shall serve at the pleasure of the County Chair. In the event of a vacancy in the office of County Chair, the persons holding appointed positions shall serve only until the election of a new County Chair.

Article V: Meetings of the Executive Committee

Section 1: The Executive Committee shall meet as often as is necessary to complete its mission.

Section 2: Regular meetings shall occur as scheduled by the Executive Committee. In the event the County Chair cancels or fails to call a regular meeting, one-fourth (1/4) or fifty (50) of the Precinct Chairs, whichever is fewer, may, by written demand, call the regular meeting. Notice of any such meeting shall be sent by surface or electronic mail to all members of the Executive Committee at least (10) days prior to the meeting.

Section 3: The County Chair or one-fourth (1/4) or fifty (50) of the Precinct Chairs, whichever is fewer, may, by written demand, call an organizational meeting of the Executive Committee. Notice of any such meeting shall be sent by surface or electronic mail to all members of the Executive Committee at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting.

Section 4: Unless otherwise required by the RPT Rules, a quorum shall consist of not less than one-fourth (1/4) of membership, excluding vacancies at the time of the meeting call.

Article VI: Standing and Temporary Committees and Executive Teams

Section 1: The Standing Committees shall be: Budget, Finance and Fundraising, Financial Review, Rules, Precinct Chair Recruitment and Vetting, Party Training and Programs, Events and Community Engagement, Legislative and Political Priorities, Candidate, Elections, Get Out the Vote (GOTV), and Election Security.

Section 2: The County Chair may appoint Temporary Committees as deemed necessary to carry out the policies of the Executive Committee. Continued operation of these Temporary Committees is contingent upon majority approval of the Executive Committee at the next Executive Committee.

Section 3: Each Standing Committee and Temporary Committee shall meet at the call of the County Chair, or the Chair of that particular Committee. If the County Chair or chair of a Standing Committee fails to call a meeting, a majority of the members of the committee may demand a meeting and the chair shall call a meeting within 15 days of such request.

Section 4: The Executive Teams shall be: Communications, Party Training and Programs, Events and Community Engagement, Volunteer Organization, Technology, and Prayer.

Section 5: Executive Teams shall not function as committees. Directors shall be appointed by the County Chair, and approved by the Executive Committee. A Director may be removed by the Chair and a replacement shall be approved by the EC at the next regular meeting.

Article VII: State House District Executive Committees

Section 1: A State House District Executive Committee shall be established for each State House District (hereinafter referred to as House District or HD) in accordance with the Standing Rules. Each House District will elect its respective House District Chair.

Section 2: Each House District shall meet at the call of the County Chair or the HD Chair.

Article VIII: Precedence Over Election Code and Parliamentary Authority

Section 1: With respect to matters of party governance, these Bylaws shall govern and take precedence over the Texas Election Code or other law to the contrary, including any provisions of the Texas Constitution and laws that purport to authorize the Legislature to adopt laws governing political party elections as applied to the Collin County Republican Party.

Section 2: The rules contained in the most current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order shall govern the meetings of the Executive Committee, Standing Committees, and Temporary Committees unless those rules are inconsistent with the RPT Rules, these Bylaws, or Standing Rules.

Article IX: Amendment of the Bylaws

These Bylaws may be amended by two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Executive Committee present and voting, provided a quorum is present. Notification of the proposed amendments must be given by surface or electronic mail and shall include the text of the intended amendments to each member of the Executive Committee at least ten (10) days in advance of a regular or special meeting called for that purpose.

Article X: Severability

In the event that any provision of these Bylaws violates or is inconsistent with the RPT Rules, that provision shall be deemed to be of no effect and the remaining provision of these Bylaws shall not be affected thereby.

Adopted for 2026-2028 Term by the Executive Committee on June 22, 2026.

Byron Henry, County Chair
Sue Reeves, Secretary