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By Madden H.B. No. 961
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the consolidation of county election precincts in a
1-3 special election.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 42.008(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) In a special election for which use of county election
1-8 precincts is required, the commissioners court may consolidate, on
1-9 the recommendation of the county election board, two or more county
1-10 election precincts into a single precinct if<:>
1-11 <(1)> the polling place is located so it will
1-12 adequately serve the voters of the consolidated precinct<; and>
1-13 <(2) no office or measure is to be voted on in the
1-14 consolidated precinct only by the voters of the county or of an
1-15 area situated wholly within the county>.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.