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.