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.