1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 512
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 April 2, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 2, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 512 By: Gallegos
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the term of election judges for county election
1-11 precincts.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 32.002, Election
1-14 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) The commissioners court[,] at its July term [each year,]
1-16 shall appoint the election judges for each regular county election
1-17 precinct.
1-18 (b) Judges appointed under Subsection (a) serve for a term
1-19 of one year beginning on August 1 following the appointment, except
1-20 that the commissioners court by order recorded in its minutes may
1-21 provide for a term of two years.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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