By Madden H.B. No. 192
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the fee for an election services contract.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 31.100(d), Election Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (d) The county election officer may not be personally
1-7 compensated for election services performed under an election
1-8 services contract. A fee charged by the officer for general
1-9 supervision of the election may not exceed 10 <five> percent of the
1-10 total amount of the contract, but may not be less than $75.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.