By Grusendorf                                         H.B. No. 2409
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the consolidation of election precincts.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 42, Election Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  language as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 42.010.  Consolidating Precincts in School District
    1-7  Elections
    1-8        (a)  In an election for trustees of an independent school
    1-9  district for which use of county election precincts is required,
   1-10  the board of trustees may consolidate two or more county election
   1-11  precincts into a single precinct if:
   1-12              (1)  the election is uncontested; and
   1-13              (2)  no person has filed a declaration of write-in
   1-14  candidacy by the filinf deadline.
   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.