1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 292
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 1997; January 28, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 February 19, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 13, Nays 0; February 19, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the period for early voting by personal appearance.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 85.001, Election Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The period for early voting by personal appearance
1-13 begins on the 17th [20th] day before election day and continues
1-14 through the seventh [fourth] day before election day, except as
1-15 otherwise provided by this section.
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.
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