By Danburg H.B. No. 2244 74R6370 GGS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to candidacy for public elective office. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. The provisions relating to candidacy for public 1-5 elective office are changed to increase public confidence in and 1-6 improve the functioning of the electoral and political processes, 1-7 including restricting candidacy in certain circumstances. 1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.