1-1  By:  Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                 H.B. No. 790
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
    1-3  April 5, 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 0; 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 date and time of the local canvass in a primary
   1-18  election.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Section 172.116(b), Election Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        (b)  The committee shall convene to conduct the local canvass
   1-23  at the county seat not earlier than 6 p.m. on the first Thursday or
   1-24  later than 1 p.m.  on the first Friday after election day at the
   1-25  hour specified by the county chairman.
   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. 790, 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. 790.