By Seidlits                                           H.B. No. 2110
       74R5127 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the procedures used before processing electronic voting
    1-3  system ballots at a central counting station.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 127.061, Election Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 127.061.  Requirement <Authority> to Use Sealed Ballot
    1-8  Boxes.  An <As an alternative to the procedure of Subchapter B,
    1-9  the> authority adopting an electronic <the> voting system in which
   1-10  ballots are to be counted at a central counting station shall <may
   1-11  provide by resolution, order, or other official action for the> use
   1-12  <of> sealed ballot boxes in accordance with this subchapter.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 127, Election Code, is
   1-14  repealed.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.