By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 2692
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain election processes and procedures.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 52.094, Election Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The authority with whom an application for place on the
    1-7  ballot is filed <responsible for having the official ballot
    1-8  prepared for the election> shall conduct the drawing.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 172.022, is amended to read as follows:
   1-10        Sec. 172.022.  Authority with whom application filed.  (a)
   1-11  An application for a place on the general primary election ballot
   1-12  must be filed with:
   1-13              (1)  the state chair<man>, <for an office filled by
   1-14  voters of more than one county> for a statewide or district office;
   1-15  or
   1-16              (2)  the county chair<man> or the secretary, if any, of
   1-17  the county executive committee, <for an office filled by voters of
   1-18  a single county> for a county or precinct office.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  Section 172.120, is amended to read as follows:
   1-20        Sec. 172.120.  State canvass.  (a)  The state executive
   1-21  committee shall canvass the county election returns.  The state
   1-22  canvass includes all state and district offices, including district
   1-23  offices wholly contained in one county.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-2        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.