H.B. No. 582 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the date for holding a political party's county and 1-3 senatorial district conventions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 174.063(a), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) The county and senatorial district conventions shall be 1-8 held on the third Saturday after general primary election day. 1-9 However, if that date occurs during Passover or on the day 1-10 following Good Friday, the conventions shall be held on the next 1-11 Saturday that does not occur during Passover or on the day 1-12 following Good Friday. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.