By Madla                                         S.B. No. 511

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the use of separate ballots for the election of the

 1-3     office of precinct chairman.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 172.089, Election Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 172.089.  ORDER OF PARTY OFFICE [OFFICES] ON BALLOT.

 1-8     The party office [offices] of county chairman [and precinct

 1-9     chairman] shall  be listed on the primary election ballot after the

1-10     public offices [with the office of county chairman listed first].

1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 172.090(a), Election Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           (a)  In a primary election [in which election precincts are

1-14     consolidated], the county executive committee shall [may] provide

1-15     by resolution, order, or other official action for voting [in a

1-16     consolidated precinct] by separate paper ballot for the office of

1-17     precinct chairman.

1-18           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.