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.