By Danburg H.B. No. 541 74R2209 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a prohibition on the listing of a county clerk's name 1-3 on election supplies at an election in which the clerk is a 1-4 candidate. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 51, Election Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 51.014 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 51.014. PROHIBITION ON COUNTY CLERK'S NAME APPEARING ON 1-9 ELECTION SUPPLIES. (a) The name of the person holding the office 1-10 of county clerk may not appear on election supplies for an election 1-11 at which that person is a candidate for office. 1-12 (b) The prohibition prescribed by Subsection (a) applies 1-13 only to the appearance of the name in connection with the person's 1-14 status as the incumbent and does not apply in connection with the 1-15 person's status as a candidate or voter. 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.