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.