By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 512

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the term of election judges for county election

 1-2     precincts.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 32.002, Election

 1-5     Code, are amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  The commissioners court[,] at its July term [each year,]

 1-7     shall appoint the election judges for each regular county election

 1-8     precinct.

 1-9           (b)  Judges appointed under Subsection (a) serve for a term

1-10     of one year beginning on August 1 following the appointment, except

1-11     that the commissioners court by order recorded in its minutes may

1-12     provide for a term of two years.

1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.