By Madden H.B. No. 2555
74R4392 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the wording of a proposition submitting a proposed
1-3 constitutional amendment.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 274.001, Election Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 274.001. Form of Amendment on Ballot. (a) The
1-8 legislature shall prescribe the wording of the proposition
1-9 submitting a proposed constitutional amendment in terms that
1-10 clearly express its scope and character.
1-11 (b) If the legislature fails to prescribe the wording of the
1-12 proposition submitting a proposed constitutional amendment, the
1-13 secretary of state shall prescribe it.
1-14 (c) <(b)> The proposition prescribed by the secretary of
1-15 state must describe the proposed amendment in terms that clearly
1-16 express its scope and character.
1-17 (d) <(c)> The governor shall include the proposition in the
1-18 proclamation ordering the election at which the constitutional
1-19 amendment will be submitted.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-21 SECTION 3. 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.