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.