By: James H.B. No. 1842
73R5667 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the dates of the general and runoff primary elections.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 41.007(a) and (b), Election Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The general primary election date is the first Saturday
1-7 <second Tuesday> in May <March> in each even-numbered year.
1-8 (b) The runoff primary election date is the first Saturday
1-9 <second Tuesday> in June <April> following the general primary
1-10 election.
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.