By Madla S.B. No. 511
75R3496 DRH-D
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.