By: Hilbert H.B. No. 1248 73R4705 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to changing the date of a political subdivision's general 1-3 election for officers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 41.0052 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 41.0052. CHANGING GENERAL ELECTION DATE. (a) The 1-8 governing body of a political subdivision other than a county may, 1-9 not later than December 31, 1993, change the date on which it holds 1-10 its general election for officers to another uniform election date 1-11 prescribed by Section 41.001(a). An election on the new date may 1-12 not be held before 1994. 1-13 (b) A governing body changing an election date under this 1-14 section shall adjust the terms of office to conform to the new 1-15 election date. 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.