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. 1-24 * * * * *