73R6664 GGS-D
By Park H.B. No. 162
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to electioneering during early voting.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 85.036(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) During the time an early voting polling place is open
1-7 for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for
1-8 or against any candidate, measure, or political party in or within
1-9 a certain distance from the building or structure in which the
1-10 early voting polling place is located, as follows:
1-11 (1) for a building containing the main early voting
1-12 polling place, other than a building covered by Subdivision (2), a
1-13 person may not electioneer in the room in which the polling place
1-14 is located or within 30 feet of the entrance to the room in which
1-15 the polling place is located;
1-16 (2) for a courthouse, subcourthouse, or courthouse
1-17 annex, a person may not electioneer in the building or within 30
1-18 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the
1-19 building in which the polling place is located;
1-20 (3) <(2)> for a building that is also used as a
1-21 precinct polling place, a person may not electioneer within 100
1-22 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the
1-23 building in which the polling place is located; and
1-24 (4) <(3)> for any other structure, a person may not
2-1 electioneer within 30 feet of the entrance to the voting area.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.