By Carona                                        S.B. No. 292

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the period for early voting by personal appearance.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 85.001(a), Election Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  The period for early voting by personal appearance

 1-7     begins on the 17th [20th] day before election day and continues

 1-8     through the seventh [fourth] day before election day, except as

 1-9     otherwise provided by this section.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.