By Danburg                                            H.B. No. 2242
       74R6372 GGS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain election-related dates and deadlines.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The primary election dates, uniform election
    1-5  dates, and related dates, deadlines, and procedures are changed to
    1-6  increase public participation in and improve the functioning of the
    1-7  electoral and political processes.  The number of exceptions to the
    1-8  requirement to hold elections on uniform election dates are
    1-9  reduced.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.