By Denny                                        H.B. No. 1350

      75R4261 DRH-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to eligibility requirements for clerks serving at a

 1-3     central counting station.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 127.006(b), Election Code, is amended  to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  Except as otherwise provided by this section, the

 1-8     eligibility requirements prescribed by this code for precinct

 1-9     election clerks apply to clerks serving at a central counting

1-10     station.  To be eligible to serve as a clerk under this section, a

1-11     person must be a qualified voter of the county in which the central

1-12     counting station is located.  The general custodian of election

1-13     records or an [An] employee of a political  subdivision is eligible

1-14     to serve as a clerk and is not subject to the qualified voter

1-15     requirement.

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.