By: Hilbert H.B. No. 2294 73R5162 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the voting procedures of a county executive committee 1-3 in certain counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 171, Election Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 171.0225 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 171.0225. VOTING PROCEDURE IN COUNTY WITH A POPULATION 1-8 OF 2.5 MILLION OR MORE. In a county with a population of 2.5 1-9 million or more, on all matters for which a vote of the county 1-10 executive committee is required, a vote cast by a precinct chairman 1-11 bears the same proportional value to the number of votes cast by 1-12 all precinct chairmen that the total number of votes cast in that 1-13 precinct in the party's preceding primary bears to the total number 1-14 of votes cast in the county in the party's preceding primary. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.