By Madden H.B. No. 189
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the date of the filing deadline for the general primary
1-3 election.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 172.023, Election Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) An application for a place on the general primary
1-9 election ballot must be filed not later than 6 p.m. on January 10
1-10 <2> in the primary election year unless the filing deadline is
1-11 extended under Subchapter C.
1-12 (c) After consulting the state chairman of each political
1-13 party making nominations by primary election, the secretary of
1-14 state by rule shall make any necessary modifications to dates,
1-15 deadlines, or time schemes prescribed by this code that are
1-16 affected by the filing deadline prescribed by Subsection (a).
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.