By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 509

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to an administrative fee under an election services

 1-2     contract.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 31.100, Election Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (d)  The county election officer may not be personally

 1-7     compensated for election services performed under an election

 1-8     services contract.  A fee charged by the officer for general

 1-9     supervision of the election may not exceed 10 [five] percent of the

1-10     total amount of the contract, except that the fee may not exceed

1-11     five percent of the contract for a primary election.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.