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.