By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 2695
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the election of party officials.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 171.022, Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 171.022.  Committee Composition.  (a)  A county
    1-7  executive committee consists of:
    1-8              (1)  a county chairman, who is the presiding officer,
    1-9  elected at the general primary by majority vote of the qualified
   1-10  voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that office; and
   1-11              (2)  a precinct chairman from each county election
   1-12  precinct, elected at the general primary by <majority> plurality
   1-13  vote of the qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the
   1-14  primary on that office.
   1-15        (b)  If no candidate for county chairman receives a majority
   1-16  of the votes, a runoff to determine the office is conducted in the
   1-17  same manner as a runoff primary election to determine a nomination
   1-18  for public office.  The candidates to be in a runoff are determined
   1-19  in the same manner as candidates in a runoff for a nomination.
   1-20        (c)  Each committee member serves for a term of two years
   1-21  beginning the 20th day after runoff primary election day.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.