By Madden H.B. No. 583
74R1368 GGS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the establishment of branch early voting polling places
1-3 in certain elections.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 85.062(d), Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (d) In a primary election, the general election for state
1-8 and county officers, or a special election to fill a vacancy in the
1-9 legislature or in congress:
1-10 (1) the commissioners court of a county with a
1-11 population of 400,000 or more shall establish one or more early
1-12 voting polling places other than the main early voting polling
1-13 place in each state representative district containing territory
1-14 covered by the election, except that the polling place or places
1-15 shall be established in the state senatorial or congressional
1-16 district, as applicable, in a special election to fill a vacancy in
1-17 the office of state senator or United States representative; and
1-18 (2) the commissioners court of a county with a
1-19 population of 150,000 <100,000> or more but less than 400,000 shall
1-20 establish one or more early voting polling places other than the
1-21 main early voting polling place in each commissioners precinct
1-22 containing territory covered by the election.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.