By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 308
       73R619 ESH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the age at which a child is allowed to accompany a
    1-3  parent to a voting station.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 64.002(b), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A child under 16 <10> years of age may accompany his
    1-8  parent to a voting station.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.