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.