By Raymond                                       H.B. No. 301

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to candidacy for two or more offices to be voted on at one

 1-3     or more elections held on the same day.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 52.034, Election Code, is amended to read

 1-6     as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 52.034.  Name on Ballot More Than Once.  A candidate's

 1-8     name may not appear more than once on the ballot except as a

 1-9     candidate for[:]

1-10                 [(1)]  two or more offices that are permitted by law to

1-11     be held by the same person[; or]

1-12                 [(2)  the office of president or vice-president of the

1-13     United States and another office].

1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 141.033(c), Election Code, is repealed.

1-15           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.