By Madden                                              H.B. No. 260
       74R469 GGS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the place for voting a limited ballot by personal
    1-3  appearance.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 112.006, Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 112.006.  Place for Voting by Personal Appearance.  A
    1-8  <(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may vote a
    1-9  limited ballot by personal appearance only at an early voting
   1-10  polling place serving the voters of the election precinct in which
   1-11  the person resides.>
   1-12        <(b)  In a county with a population of more than 1,500,000,
   1-13  a> person may vote a limited ballot by personal appearance only at
   1-14  the main early voting polling place.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.