By: Carona S.B. No. 292
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the period for early voting by personal appearance.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 85.001, Election
1-4 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) The period for early voting by personal appearance
1-6 begins on the 17th [20th] day before election day and continues
1-7 through the fourth day before election day, except as otherwise
1-8 provided by this section.
1-9 (c) If the date prescribed by Subsection (a) or (b) for
1-10 beginning the period is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state holiday,
1-11 the period begins:
1-12 (1) on the next regular business day; or
1-13 (2) on that Saturday or Sunday if early voting is
1-14 ordered to be conducted on that day under Section 85.006.
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.