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.