By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1194
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to allocation of delegates after presidential primary
    1-2  elections.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 191.007, Election Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 191.007.  Allocation of Delegates.  (a)  Each political
    1-7  party holding a presidential primary election shall adopt a rule
    1-8  for allocating delegates based on the results of the presidential
    1-9  primary election.  At least 75 percent of the total number of
   1-10  delegates who are to represent this state at the party's national
   1-11  presidential nominating convention, excluding delegates allocated
   1-12  among party and elected officials, shall be allocated in accordance
   1-13  with the rule among one or more of the candidates whose names
   1-14  appear on the presidential primary election ballot and, if
   1-15  applicable, the uncommitted status.
   1-16        (b)  Delegates and alternates allocated to a candidate must
   1-17  be members of the candidate's political party for the current
   1-18  election year and must be selected by the candidate.  The state
   1-19  chairman of a political party holding a presidential primary
   1-20  election must be notified in writing of the names and addresses of
   1-21  all delegates and alternates selected by the candidate at least 10
   1-22  days prior to the opening of the state convention of that party.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.