1-1  By:  Henderson, Shelley                               S.B. No. 1382
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 15, 1993; April 19, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; May 12, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 12, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Armbrister         x                               
    1-9        Leedom             x                               
   1-10        Carriker           x                               
   1-11        Henderson          x                               
   1-12        Madla              x                               
   1-13        Moncrief           x                               
   1-14        Patterson          x                               
   1-15        Rosson             x                               
   1-16        Shapiro                                        x   
   1-17        Wentworth          x                               
   1-18        Whitmire           x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to changing the date of a political subdivision's general
   1-22  election for officers.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Election Code, is
   1-25  amended by adding Section 41.0052 to read as follows:
   1-26        Sec. 41.0052.  CHANGING GENERAL ELECTION DATE.  (a)  The
   1-27  governing body of a political subdivision other than a county may,
   1-28  not later than December 31, 1993, change the date on which it holds
   1-29  its general election for officers to another uniform election date
   1-30  prescribed by Section 41.001(a).  An election on the new date may
   1-31  not be held before 1994.
   1-32        (b)  A governing body changing an election date under this
   1-33  section shall adjust the terms of office to conform to the new
   1-34  election date.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-36        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-37  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-38  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-39  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-40  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-42                                                         Austin,
   1-43  Texas
   1-44                                                         May 12, 1993
   1-45  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-46  President of the Senate
   1-47  Sir:
   1-48  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-49  referred S.B. No. 1382, have had the same under consideration, and
   1-50  I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-51  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-52                                                         Armbrister,
   1-53  Chairman
   1-54                               * * * * *
   1-55                               WITNESSES
   1-56  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1382.