1-1     By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 509

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1997; February 12, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     March 19, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; March 19, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 509               By:  Armbrister

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to an administrative fee under an election services

1-11     contract.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 31.100, Election Code, is

1-14     amended to read as follows:

1-15           (d)  The county election officer may not be personally

1-16     compensated for election services performed under an election

1-17     services contract.  A fee charged by the officer for general

1-18     supervision of the election may not exceed 10 [five] percent of the

1-19     total amount of the contract, except that the fee may not exceed

1-20     five percent of the contract for a primary election.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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