1-1  By:  Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Carriker)       H.B. No. 689
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1993;
    1-3  May 6, 1993, read first time and referred to Subcommittee on
    1-4  Elections and Ethics; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 1; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Carriker           x                               
    1-9        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-10        Ellis              x                               
   1-11        Henderson                                      x   
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                         x   
   1-14        Wentworth                  x                       
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to the form of a punch-card ballot in regard to
   1-18  straight-party voting.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Section 124.062, Election Code, is amended by
   1-21  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-22        (d)  In an election in which a punch-card ballot is used and
   1-23  straight-party voting is permitted, the secretary of state shall
   1-24  assign a uniform number position on the ballot to each political
   1-25  party to correspond to a straight-party vote.
   1-26        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-33                                                         Austin,
   1-34  Texas
   1-35                                                         May 10, 1993
   1-36  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-37  President of the Senate
   1-38  Sir:
   1-39  We, your Subcommittee on Elections and Ethics to which was referred
   1-40  H.B. No. 689, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-41  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-42  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-43                                                         Carriker,
   1-44  Chairman
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   1-46                               WITNESSES
   1-47  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 689.