By Madden H.B. No. 258 74R726 GGS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the polling place in a joint election. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 271.003, Election Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 271.003. Location of Common Polling Place. (a) A 1-7 regular county polling place shall be used for each common polling 1-8 place in a joint election unless the regular county polling place 1-9 is unavailable, in which case another location shall be designated. 1-10 (b) The voters of a particular election precinct or 1-11 political subdivision may be served in a joint election by a common 1-12 polling place located outside the boundary of the election precinct 1-13 or political subdivision if the location can adequately and 1-14 conveniently serve the affected voters and will facilitate the 1-15 orderly conduct of the election. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.