By Smith                                              H.B. No. 2262

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the filing of a declaration of write-in candidacy in

 1-3     elections for trustees of independent school districts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.056(b), Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  A declaration of write-in candidacy must be filed not

 1-8     later than 5 p.m. of the 45th [30th] day before the date of the

 1-9     election.  However, if a candidate whose name is to appear on the

1-10     ballot dies or is declared ineligible after the 48th [33rd] day

1-11     before the date of the election, a declaration of write-in

1-12     candidacy for the office sought by the deceased or ineligible

1-13     candidate may be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the 42nd [27th] day

1-14     before the date of the election.

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.