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.