By Madla                                         S.B. No. 512

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the term of election judges for county election

 1-3     precincts.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 32.002(a) and (b), Election Code, are

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The commissioners court[,] at its July term [each year,]

 1-8     shall appoint the election judges for each regular county election

 1-9     precinct.

1-10           (b)  Judges appointed under Subsection (a) serve for a term

1-11     of two years [one year] beginning on August 1 following the

1-12     appointment.

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.