By Madden H.B. No. 3012 74R3206 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the location of branch early voting polling places. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 85.062, Election Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (f) In a countywide election, the total number of permanent 1-7 branch polling places and temporary branch polling places open for 1-8 voting at the same time in a commissioners precinct may not exceed 1-9 twice the number of permanent branch and temporary branch polling 1-10 places open at that time in another commissioners precinct. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.