By Yarbrough                                           H.B. No. 989
       74R3367 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the selection of the county chairman of a political
    1-3  party in certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 171.022, Election Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  A county executive committee consists of:
    1-9              (1)  a county chairman, who is the presiding officer,
   1-10  elected at the general primary election by majority vote of the
   1-11  qualified voters of the county who vote in the primary on that
   1-12  office, except as provided by Subsection (d), or appointed by the
   1-13  county executive committee as provided by this subchapter; and
   1-14              (2)  a precinct chairman from each county election
   1-15  precinct, elected at the general primary by majority vote of the
   1-16  qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that
   1-17  office or appointed by the county executive committee as provided
   1-18  by this subchapter.
   1-19        (d)  In a county with a population of more than 1 million,
   1-20  the county chairman is appointed by the precinct chairmen following
   1-21  their election at the primary.  The political party shall prescribe
   1-22  the rules necessary to implement this subsection.
   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.