By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 2170
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to petitions described by law outside the Election Code.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 277, Title 16.  Texas Election Laws, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 277.002 to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  to be filed with the proper authority as specified by
    1-7  the outside code under which an election is to be held within 180
    1-8  days after the signature is obtained.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-15  passage, and it is so enacted.