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.