By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 2690
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the withdrawal of a candidate.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 145.001(b), Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  To be effective, a withdrawal request must:
    1-7              (1)  be in writing and be signed and sworn
    1-8  <acknowledged> by the candidate; and
    1-9              (2)  be timely filed with the appropriate authority as
   1-10  provided by this code.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.