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.