By:  Carona                                             H.B. No. 52
       73R1207 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the eligibility of a person who is convicted of certain
    1-3  offenses to serve as an election judge or clerk.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 32, Election Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 32.0551 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 32.0551.  INELIGIBILITY OF PERSON CONVICTED OF CERTAIN
    1-8  OFFENSES.  A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or
    1-9  clerk in an election if the person has been finally convicted of a
   1-10  felony or Class A or B misdemeanor under this code.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.