By: Grusendorf H.B. No. 1118 73R4801 GGS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the selection of the chairman of a political party's 1-3 county executive committee. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 171.022(a), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) A county executive committee consists of: 1-8 (1) a county chairman, who is the presiding officer, 1-9 elected at the general primary election by majority vote of the 1-10 qualified voters of the county who vote in the primary on that 1-11 office, unless a different method of selection is adopted by the 1-12 state executive committee under Section 171.0221; and 1-13 (2) a precinct chairman from each county election 1-14 precinct, elected at the general primary by majority vote of the 1-15 qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that 1-16 office. 1-17 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 171, Election Code, is 1-18 amended by adding Section 171.0221 to read as follows: 1-19 Sec. 171.0221. SELECTION OF COUNTY CHAIRMAN. (a) A 1-20 political party's state executive committee may determine the 1-21 method of selecting the chairmen of the party's county executive 1-22 committees. 1-23 (b) The method of selection is not required to be uniform 1-24 among the counties. 2-1 (c) The state executive committee shall adopt rules that are 2-2 necessary to implement the method of selection. 2-3 SECTION 3. Sections 172.089 and 172.112, Election Code, are 2-4 amended to read as follows: 2-5 Sec. 172.089. Order of Party Offices on Ballot. The party 2-6 offices of county chairman, if elective, and precinct chairman 2-7 shall be listed on the primary election ballot after the public 2-8 offices with the office of county chairman listed first. 2-9 Sec. 172.112. Write-In Voting. Write-in voting in a primary 2-10 election is not permitted except in the general primary election 2-11 for the offices of county chairman, if elective, and precinct 2-12 chairman. 2-13 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-14 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.