By Madden                                             H.B. No. 1771
       74R4148 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to procedures concerning the appointment of election
    1-3  clerks in certain elections; providing a criminal penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 32.034, Election Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  If the presiding judge fails to make an appointment as
    1-8  required by Subsection (b) or (c), the presiding judge is
    1-9  ineligible to serve in that position for a two-year period
   1-10  beginning on the date an appointment is required to be made under
   1-11  Subsection (d).  The resulting vacancy shall be filled in the
   1-12  regular manner.
   1-13        (f)  A presiding judge commits an offense if the presiding
   1-14  judge intentionally fails to make an appointment as required by
   1-15  Subsection (b) or (c).  An offense under this section is a Class C
   1-16  misdemeanor.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.