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.