By Patterson S.B. No. 1088 75R3664 GGS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of a private building for a polling place. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 43.031(d), Election Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (d) If a suitable public building is unavailable, the 1-7 polling place may be located in some other building, and any charge 1-8 for its use is an election expense. A polling place may not be 1-9 located in a building under this subsection unless electioneering 1-10 is permitted on the building's premises outside the prescribed 1-11 limits within which electioneering is prohibited. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.