By: Danburg H.B. No. 2262
73R6506 GGS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to runoff election dates for certain political
1-3 subdivisions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. (a) Each political subdivision of this state
1-6 holding its general election for officers on May 1, 1993, shall
1-7 hold any resulting runoff election on the date ordered by the
1-8 governor for the runoff in the special election to fill a vacancy
1-9 in the United States Senate.
1-10 (b) If under this section a runoff election is held on a
1-11 date other than a date prescribed by other law, the schedule for
1-12 performing any official act relating to the election shall be
1-13 adjusted to allow the same interval in relation to the date of the
1-14 election as would be provided by application of the other law.
1-15 (c) The period for early voting by personal appearance in
1-16 the political subdivision's runoff election begins on the date that
1-17 early voting by personal appearance begins for the runoff in the
1-18 special election to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.
1-19 (d) This section supersedes other law to the extent of any
1-20 conflict.
1-21 SECTION 2. If a runoff is not required in the special
1-22 election to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, this Act
1-23 has no effect.
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,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.