By Danburg H.B. No. 663 74R2715 PEP-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the vote required to adopt a measure at an election. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 276, Election Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Section 276.009 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 276.009. VOTE REQUIREMENT APPLICABLE TO ELECTION ON 1-7 MEASURE. If a statute provides for submitting a measure to the 1-8 voters of a governmental entity at an election and provides that 1-9 the result of the election depends on whether the measure is 1-10 approved by a majority of the qualified or registered voters of the 1-11 governmental entity, the measure is approved only if it receives a 1-12 favorable vote from a majority of all the registered voters of that 1-13 entity. The measure is not approved if it receives a favorable 1-14 vote only from a majority of the qualified or registered voters in 1-15 the governmental entity who vote at the election. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.