By Hochberg H.B. No. 790 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the date and time of the local canvass in a primary 1-3 election. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 172.116(b), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) The committee shall convene to conduct the local canvass 1-8 at the county seat not earlier than 6 p.m. on the first Thursday or 1-9 later than 1 p.m. on the first Friday after election day at the 1-10 hour specified by the county chairman. 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.