By Hirschi H.B. No. 2700
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the deadline for submission of a voter registration
1-3 application before an election.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 13.143(e), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (e) If the 30th day before the date of an election is a
1-8 Saturday, Sunday, or legal state or national holiday, an
1-9 application <submitted by mail> is considered to be timely if the
1-10 application is submitted to the registrar <date indicated by the
1-11 post office cancellation mark is> on the next regular business day.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.