By Carona S.B. No. 292
75R2582 GGS-D
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.