By Romo                                               H.B. No. 1948
       74R3928 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring a plurality vote to elect a precinct chairman
    1-3  in a party primary.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 171.022(a) and (b), Election Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A county executive committee consists of:
    1-8              (1)  a county chairman, who is the presiding officer,
    1-9  elected at the general primary election by majority vote of the
   1-10  qualified voters of the county who vote in the primary on that
   1-11  office or appointed by the county executive committee as provided
   1-12  by this subchapter; and
   1-13              (2)  a precinct chairman from each county election
   1-14  precinct, elected at the general primary by plurality <majority>
   1-15  vote of the qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the
   1-16  primary on that office or appointed by the county executive
   1-17  committee as provided by this subchapter.
   1-18        (b)  If no candidate receives a majority of the votes for the
   1-19  office of county chairman, a runoff to determine the office is
   1-20  conducted in the same manner as a runoff primary election to
   1-21  determine a nomination for public office.  The candidates to be in
   1-22  the <a> runoff are determined in the same manner as candidates in a
   1-23  runoff for a nomination.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.