By Rodriguez                                           H.B. No. 634
       74R2545 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the dates of the primary elections.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 41.007(a), (b), and (c), Election Code,
    1-5  are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The general primary election date is the first Saturday
    1-7  after the first <second> Tuesday in March in each even-numbered
    1-8  year.
    1-9        (b)  The runoff primary election date is the first Saturday
   1-10  after the first <second> Tuesday in April following the general
   1-11  primary election.
   1-12        (c)  The presidential primary election date is the first
   1-13  Saturday after the first  <second> Tuesday in March in each
   1-14  presidential election year.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.