By: Jones, Jesse H.B. No. 689 73R1685 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the form of a punch-card ballot in regard to 1-3 straight-party voting. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 124.062, Election Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) In an election in which a punch-card ballot is used and 1-8 straight-party voting is permitted, the secretary of state shall 1-9 assign a uniform number position on the ballot to each political 1-10 party to correspond to a straight-party vote. 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.