By Hochberg                                            H.B. No. 790
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the date of the local canvass in a primary election.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 172.116(b), Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The committee shall convene to conduct the local canvass
    1-7  at the county seat on the first Thursday evening <Friday> after
    1-8  election day at the hour specified by the county chairman.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.