By Maxey, Greenberg H.B. No. 324 75R8971 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the days and hours during which early voting by 1-3 personal appearance is conducted in certain municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 85, Election Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 85.008 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 85.008. DAYS AND HOURS FOR VOTING: ELECTION IN CERTAIN 1-8 CITIES. (a) This section applies only to a city with a population 1-9 of more than 450,000 in which all members of the governing body are 1-10 elected on an at-large basis. 1-11 (b) Notwithstanding and in addition to other applicable 1-12 provisions of this code, in an election in which the city secretary 1-13 is the early voting clerk under Section 83.005, early voting by 1-14 personal appearance shall be conducted on the corresponding days 1-15 and for the same number of hours that the voting is required to be 1-16 conducted in the general election for state and county officers in 1-17 the county in which a majority of the population of the city is 1-18 located. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.