By Madden                                             H.B. No. 1790
       74R6212 GGS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the delivery of early voting carrier envelopes.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 86.006, Election Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  A delivery of carrier envelopes by a common or contract
    1-7  carrier that originates from the address of the headquarters of a
    1-8  political party, a candidate in the election, a specific-purpose or
    1-9  general-purpose political committee involved in the election, or an
   1-10  entity that requested that the election be held is prohibited.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.