1-1  By:  Greenberg, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Rosson)       H.B. No. 582
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 16, 1995;
    1-3  March 20, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; April 4, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 4, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the date for holding a political party's county and
    1-9  senatorial district conventions.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 174.063(a), Election Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  The county and senatorial district conventions shall be
   1-14  held on the third Saturday after general primary election day.
   1-15  However, if that date occurs during Passover or on the day
   1-16  following Good Friday, the conventions shall be held on the next
   1-17  Saturday that does not occur during Passover or on the day
   1-18  following Good Friday.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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