By: Park H.B. No. 162
73R1605 DRH-F
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, a person may not electioneer in the room in which
1-13 the polling place is located or within 100 <30> feet of the
1-14 entrance to the room in which the polling place is located;
1-15 (2) for a building that is also used as a precinct
1-16 polling place, a person may not electioneer within 100 feet of an
1-17 outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which
1-18 the polling place is located; and
1-19 (3) for any other structure, a person may not
1-20 electioneer within 100 <30> feet of the entrance to the voting
1-21 area.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.