By Jones of Dallas                                     H.B. No. 569
       74R2678 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the form of a punch-card ballot in regard to
    1-3  straight-party voting.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 124.062, Election Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  In an election in which a punch-card ballot is used and
    1-8  straight-party voting is permitted, the secretary of state shall
    1-9  assign a uniform number position on the ballot to each political
   1-10  party to correspond to a straight-party vote.
   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.