By:  Hamric                                           H.B. No. 2089
       73R4138 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain polling place procedures for a runoff primary
    1-3  election.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 172, Election Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 172.125 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 172.125.  POLL LIST OF OTHER PARTY PRIMARY REQUIRED FOR
    1-8  RUNOFF.  (a)  For each election precinct in a runoff primary
    1-9  election, the county chairman shall obtain from the general
   1-10  custodian of election records, as an expense of the party, a  copy
   1-11  of the precinct early voting list and the poll list for each
   1-12  primary of another party held in that precinct in the same voting
   1-13  year.  The county chairman shall provide to the presiding election
   1-14  judge a list combining in alphabetical order the names of those
   1-15  voters appearing on the early voting and poll lists.
   1-16        (b)  An election officer at a runoff primary election polling
   1-17  place shall determine whether the name of a voter offering to vote
   1-18  is on the list provided under Subsection (a).  If the voter's name
   1-19  is on that list, the voter may not be accepted for voting at the
   1-20  runoff unless the voter executes an affidavit stating that the
   1-21  voter did not vote in the primary or participate in a convention of
   1-22  another party during the same voting year.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.