By Greenberg                                            H.B. No. 39
       74R572 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the date of the primary elections in a gubernatorial
    1-3  election year.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 41.001(a), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, each
    1-8  general or special election in this state shall be held on one of
    1-9  the following dates:
   1-10              (1)  the third Saturday in January;
   1-11              (2)  the first Saturday in May in an odd-numbered year;
   1-12              (3)  the second Saturday in August; or
   1-13              (4)  the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
   1-14  November.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 41.0052(a), Election Code, is amended to
   1-16  read as follows:
   1-17        (a)  The governing body of a political subdivision other than
   1-18  a county may, not later than December 31, 1995 <1993>, change the
   1-19  date on which it holds its general election for officers to another
   1-20  authorized uniform election date.  An election on the new date may
   1-21  not be held before 1996 <1994>.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  Sections 41.007(a) and (b), Election Code, are
   1-23  amended to read as follows:
   1-24        (a)  The general primary election date is:
    2-1              (1)  the second Tuesday in March in each presidential
    2-2  primary election year; or
    2-3              (2)  the first Saturday in May in each <even-numbered>
    2-4  gubernatorial general election year.
    2-5        (b)  The runoff primary election date is:
    2-6              (1)  the second Tuesday in April following the general
    2-7  primary election in a presidential primary election year; or
    2-8              (2)  the first Saturday in June following the general
    2-9  primary election in a gubernatorial general election year.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  Section 171.022(c), Election Code, is amended to
   2-11  read as follows:
   2-12        (c)  Each committee member serves for a term <of two years>
   2-13  beginning the 20th day after each runoff primary election day.
   2-14        SECTION 5.  Section 172.023(a), Election Code, is amended to
   2-15  read as follows:
   2-16        (a)  Unless the filing deadline is extended under Subchapter
   2-17  C, an <An> application for a place on the general primary election
   2-18  ballot must be filed not later than 6 p.m. on:
   2-19              (1)  January 2 in the presidential primary election
   2-20  <primary election> year; or
   2-21              (2)  the first Monday in February in the gubernatorial
   2-22  general election year <unless the filing deadline is extended under
   2-23  Subchapter C>.
   2-24        SECTION 6.  The term of a person who is serving as a county
   2-25  or precinct chairman on the effective date of this Act ends on the
   2-26  20th day after the first Saturday in June 1996.
   2-27        SECTION 7.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    3-1        SECTION 8.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.