By Hochberg H.B. No. 790 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 790: By Crabb C.S.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 a local canvass 1-8 at the county seat, after 6 p.m. on the first Thursday or no later 1-9 than 1 p.m. on the subsequent Friday after election day at the hour 1-10 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 conditions of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring to be read on three several days in 1-16 each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.