By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 830
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to runoff election dates for certain political
    1-2  subdivisions.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  (a)  Each political subdivision of this state
    1-5  holding its general election for officers on May 1, 1993, shall
    1-6  hold any resulting runoff election on the date ordered by the
    1-7  governor for the runoff in the special election to fill a vacancy
    1-8  in the United States Senate.
    1-9        (b)  If under this section a runoff election is held on a
   1-10  date other than a date prescribed by other law, the schedule for
   1-11  performing any official act relating to the election shall be
   1-12  adjusted to allow the same interval in relation to the date of the
   1-13  election as would be provided by application of the other law.
   1-14        (c)  The period for early voting by personal appearance in
   1-15  the political subdivision's runoff election begins on the date that
   1-16  early voting by personal appearance begins for the runoff in the
   1-17  special election to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.
   1-18        (d)  This section supersedes other law to the extent of any
   1-19  conflict.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  If a runoff is not required in the special
   1-21  election to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, this Act
   1-22  has no effect.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.