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.