By:  Romo                                             H.B. No. 1789
       73R1664 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the method of filling a vacancy in the office of
    1-3  precinct chairman.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 171.024(a) and (b), Election Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A <The county executive committee shall fill by
    1-8  appointment any> vacancy on the county executive committee shall be
    1-9  filled by appointment of:
   1-10              (1)  the county chairman, if the vacancy is in the
   1-11  office of precinct chairman; or
   1-12              (2)  the committee, if the vacancy is in the office of
   1-13  county chairman.
   1-14        (b)  A majority of the committee's membership must
   1-15  participate in filling a vacancy under Subsection (a)(2).  To be
   1-16  elected, a person must receive a favorable vote of a majority of
   1-17  the members voting.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.