1-1     By:  Patterson                                        S.B. No. 1088

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1997; March 12, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the use of a private building for a polling place.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 43.031, Election Code, is

1-11     amended to read as follows:

1-12           (d)  If a suitable public building is unavailable, the

1-13     polling place may be located in some other building, and any charge

1-14     for its use is an election expense.  A polling place may not be

1-15     located in a building under this subsection unless electioneering

1-16     is permitted on the building's premises outside the prescribed

1-17     limits within which electioneering is prohibited.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  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.

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