By Park H.B. No. 1241 74R4344 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the eligibility of a person who has served as a member 1-3 of the United States Senate or House of Representatives to be a 1-4 candidate for the same office. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Title 9, Election Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Chapter 147 to read as follows: 1-8 CHAPTER 147. CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES CONGRESS 1-9 Sec. 147.001. CERTAIN PERSONS INELIGIBLE AS CANDIDATE TO 1-10 UNITED STATES SENATE. A person is not eligible to be a candidate 1-11 in any election for the office of United States senator if the 1-12 person has previously been elected to two full six-year terms as a 1-13 United States senator. 1-14 Sec. 147.002. CERTAIN PERSONS INELIGIBLE AS CANDIDATE TO 1-15 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. A person is not eligible 1-16 to be a candidate in any election for the office of United States 1-17 representative if the person has previously been elected to six 1-18 full two-year terms as a United States representative. 1-19 Sec. 147.003. WRITE-IN CANDIDACY PERMITTED. Sections 1-20 147.001 and 147.002 do not make a person ineligible to be a 1-21 write-in candidate under Chapter 146 in any election for the office 1-22 of United States senator or United States representative. 1-23 Sec. 147.004. CERTAIN SERVICE EXCLUDED. Election to the 1-24 office of United States senator or United States representative for 2-1 a term that begins before January 1, 1997, does not count for 2-2 purposes of determining the eligibility of a person to be a 2-3 candidate for either office under this chapter. 2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.