By: Crabb H.B. No. 2609 73R6829 GGS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to clarification of the composition of a political party's 1-3 county executive committee. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 171.022(a), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) A county executive committee consists of: 1-8 (1) a county chairman, who is the presiding officer, 1-9 elected at the general primary election by majority vote of the 1-10 qualified voters of the county who vote in the primary on that 1-11 office or appointed by the county executive committee as provided 1-12 by this subchapter; and 1-13 (2) a precinct chairman from each county election 1-14 precinct, elected at the general primary by majority vote of the 1-15 qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that 1-16 office or appointed by the county executive committee as provided 1-17 by this subchapter. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.