By Madden H.B. No. 2551 74R6193 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment of and clerks serving at certain 1-3 early voting polling places. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 85.062(a) and (e), Election Code, are 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or (e), one or more 1-8 early voting polling places other than the main early voting 1-9 polling place may be established by: 1-10 (1) the commissioners court, for an election in which 1-11 the county clerk is the early voting clerk; or 1-12 (2) the governing body of the political subdivision 1-13 served by the authority ordering the election, for an election in 1-14 which a person other than the county clerk is the early voting 1-15 clerk. 1-16 (e) In an election covered by Subsection (d), a polling 1-17 place that is mobile may be established only with the approval of 1-18 the county clerk and the county chairman of each political party 1-19 whose nominee for governor in the most recent gubernatorial general 1-20 election received more than 10 percent of the total number of votes 1-21 received by all candidates for governor in the election. The early 1-22 voting clerks serving a polling place covered by this subsection 1-23 must be affiliated or aligned with different political parties to 1-24 the extent possible. The secretary of state, after consulting the 2-1 state chairman of each affected political party, shall prescribe 2-2 the procedures necessary to implement this subsection. 2-3 (f) In this subchapter, "temporary branch polling place" 2-4 means an early voting polling place established under this section. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.