By Madden                                              H.B. No. 191
       74R126 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain early voting procedures.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 85.001(a), Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The period for early voting by personal appearance
    1-7  begins on the 20th day before election day and continues through
    1-8  the fifth <fourth> day before election day, except as otherwise
    1-9  provided by this section.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 85.066, Election Code, is amended by
   1-11  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-12        (c)  For a countywide election in a county with a population
   1-13  of more than 250,000 in which temporary branch polling places are
   1-14  established under Section 85.062(d), the commissioners court may
   1-15  limit voting at a temporary branch polling place to the voters of a
   1-16  particular county commissioners precinct.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  Section 112.006(b), Election Code, is amended to
   1-18  read as follows:
   1-19        (b)  In a county with a population of more than 250,000
   1-20  <1,500,000>, a person may vote a limited ballot by personal
   1-21  appearance only at the main early voting polling place.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 5.  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.