By Madla                                         S.B. No. 509

      75R3491 GGS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to an administrative fee under an election services

 1-3     contract.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 31.100(d), Election Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  The county election officer may not be personally

 1-8     compensated for election services performed under an election

 1-9     services contract.  A fee charged by the officer for general

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

1-11     total amount of the contract.

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.