By Oakley                                             H.B. No. 1382
       74R3752 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age before
    1-3  the general election for state and county officers to vote in the
    1-4  preceding primary elections.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 172, Election Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 172.005 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 172.005.  VOTING BY PERSON UNDER AGE 18.  (a)
    1-9  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may vote in a
   1-10  primary election if the person:
   1-11              (1)  will be 18 years of age or older on the first day
   1-12  of the period for early voting by personal appearance in the
   1-13  subsequent general election for state and county officers; and
   1-14              (2)  satisfies the requirements for being a qualified
   1-15  voter except for age.
   1-16        (b)  The secretary of state, after consulting with the state
   1-17  chairman of each political party required to make nominations by
   1-18  primary election, shall prescribe the procedures necessary to
   1-19  implement this section.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.