By: Wentworth, Zaffirini, Carriker S.B. No. 308
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the age at which a child is allowed to accompany a
1-2 parent to a voting station.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 64.002, Election Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) A child under 18 <10> years of age may accompany his
1-7 parent to a voting station.
1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.