By: Shapiro S.B. No. 680 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the cancellation of certain city council elections. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 143, Election Code is amended by adding 1-4 Section 143.009 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 143.009. CANCELLATION OF CITY COUNCIL ELECTION. 1-6 (a) The City Council may cancel a city election if: 1-7 (1) the sole purpose of the election is to elect 1-8 members of the city's governing body; 1-9 (2) no seat is contested; and 1-10 (3) the deadline for filing an application to be a 1-11 write-in candidate has passed. 1-12 (b) If the election is cancelled as provided in subsection 1-13 (a) the City Council shall declare the unopposed candidate(s) the 1-14 winner(s) by ordinance. 1-15 (c) The ordinance declaring the unopposed candidate(s) the 1-16 winner(s) shall be posted in all polling places on election day. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.