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          By Marchant                                            H.B. No. 565
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exceptions to the requirement that elections be held on
    1-3  uniform election dates.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 41.001(b), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
    1-8              (1)  a runoff election;
    1-9              (2)  a local option election held under the Alcoholic
   1-10  Beverage Code;
   1-11              (3)  an election for the issuance or assumption of
   1-12  bonds or the levy of a tax for the maintenance of a public school
   1-13  or college, if the governing body of the political subdivision
   1-14  issuing or assuming the bonds or levying the tax, by resolution,
   1-15  order, or ordinance, finds that holding the election on a date
   1-16  other than a uniform election date is in the public interest, which
   1-17  finding is conclusive and incontestable;
   1-18              (4)  an election to resolve a tie vote;
   1-19              (5)  an election held under an order of a court or
   1-20  other tribunal;
   1-21              (6)  an emergency election ordered under Section
   1-22  41.0011;
   1-23              (7)  an expedited election to fill a vacancy in the
   1-24  legislature held under Section 203.013;
    2-1              (8)  an election held by a political subdivision using
    2-2  the convention method of election; <or>
    2-3              (9)  an election held under a statute that expressly
    2-4  provides that the requirement of Subsection (a) does not apply to
    2-5  the election; or
    2-6              (10)  an election to recall an officer of a political
    2-7  subdivision.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.