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.