By Romo                                               H.B. No. 1983
       74R4813 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the method of filling a vacancy in the office of
    1-3  precinct chairman.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 171.022(a), Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  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 majority vote of the
   1-15  qualified voters of the precinct who vote in the primary on that
   1-16  office or appointed by the county chairman <executive committee> as
   1-17  provided by this subchapter.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Sections 171.024(a) and (b), Election Code, are
   1-19  amended to read as follows:
   1-20        (a)  A <The county executive committee shall fill by
   1-21  appointment any> vacancy on the county executive committee shall be
   1-22  filled by appointment of:
   1-23              (1)  the county chairman, if the vacancy is in the
   1-24  office of precinct chairman; or
    2-1              (2)  the committee, if the vacancy is in the office of
    2-2  county chairman.
    2-3        (b)  A majority of the committee's membership must
    2-4  participate in filling a vacancy under Subsection (a)(2).  To be
    2-5  appointed <elected>, a person must receive a favorable vote of a
    2-6  majority of the members voting.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.