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.