By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 2691
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to facsimile transmission of federal postcard applications
    1-3  for early ballots to be voted by mail.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 101.004(a), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A federal postcard application must be submitted by
    1-8  mailing it or sending it by facsimile transmission to the early
    1-9  voting clerk for the election who serves the election precinct of
   1-10  the applicant's residence.
   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.