By Naishtat H.B. No. 2411
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to funding for the mailing of sample ballots to registered
1-3 voters.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 19.004, Election Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 Sec. 19.004. USE OF STATE FUNDS RESTRICTED. (a) Except as
1-8 provided by Subsection (b), state <State> funds disbursed under
1-9 this chapter may be used only to defray expenses of the registrar's
1-10 office in connection with voter registration.
1-11 (b) The registrar may make any portion of the funds
1-12 available to the county clerk to pay for expenses incurred in the
1-13 mailing of sample ballots to registered voters.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 19.006, Election Code, is amended to read
1-15 as follows:
1-16 Sec. 19.006. STATE FUNDS NOT PART OF COUNTY BUDGET. The
1-17 commissioners court may not consider the availability of state
1-18 funds under this chapter in adopting the county budget for the
1-19 office of the voter registrar or county clerk.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.