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.