By:  Madden                                           H.B. No. 1282
       73R5401 GGS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exceptions to the requirement to hold elections on a
    1-3  uniform election date.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 41.001(b), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
    1-8              (1)  a runoff election;
    1-9              (2)  <a local option election held under the Alcoholic
   1-10  Beverage Code;>
   1-11              <(3)  an election for the issuance or assumption of
   1-12  bonds or the levy of a tax for the maintenance of a public school
   1-13  or college, if the governing body of the political subdivision
   1-14  issuing or assuming the bonds or levying the tax, by resolution,
   1-15  order, or ordinance, finds that holding the election on a date
   1-16  other than a uniform election date is in the public interest, which
   1-17  finding is conclusive and incontestable;>
   1-18              <(4)>  an election to resolve a tie vote;
   1-19              (3) <(5)>  an election held under an order of a court
   1-20  or other tribunal;
   1-21              (4) <(6)>  an emergency election ordered under Section
   1-22  41.0011; or
   1-23              (5) <(7)>  an expedited election to fill a vacancy in
   1-24  the legislature held under Section 203.013<;>
    2-1              <(8)  an election held by a political subdivision using
    2-2  the convention method of election; or>
    2-3              <(9)  an election held under a statute that expressly
    2-4  provides that the requirement of Subsection (a) does not apply to
    2-5  the election>.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  (a)  An election that is ordered before the
    2-7  effective date of this Act and that is described by Subdivision
    2-8  (2), (3), (8), or (9), Section 41.001(b), Election Code, as it
    2-9  existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, is
   2-10  subject to that prior law, and the prior law is continued in effect
   2-11  for that purpose.
   2-12        (b)  Notwithstanding an election date prescribed under a
   2-13  statute that expressly provides that the requirement of Section
   2-14  41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to the election, an
   2-15  election held under the statute shall be held on an authorized
   2-16  uniform election date as provided by Chapter 41, Election Code.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.