73R6664 GGS-D
          By Park                                                H.B. No. 162
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 162:
          By Hirschi                                         C.S.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.