By Denny                                         H.B. No. 753

      75R4262 GGS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the place for voting a limited ballot by personal

 1-3     appearance.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 112.006, Election Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 112.006.  Place for Voting by Personal Appearance.  A

 1-8     [(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may vote a

 1-9     limited ballot by personal appearance only at an early voting

1-10     polling place serving the voters of the election precinct in which

1-11     the person resides.]

1-12           [(b)  In a county with a population of more than 1,500,000,

1-13     a] person may vote a limited ballot by personal appearance only at

1-14     the main early voting polling place.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           SECTION 3.  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.