By:  Madden                                           H.B. No. 1422
       73R5398 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the minimum fee for an election services contract.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 31.100(d), Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (d)  The county election officer may not be personally
    1-7  compensated for election services performed under an election
    1-8  services contract.  A fee charged by the officer for general
    1-9  supervision of the election may not exceed five percent of the
   1-10  total amount of the contract, but may not be less than $50.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.