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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.