LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                                   Austin, Texas
         
                                   FISCAL NOTE
                               75th Regular Session
         
                                  April 17, 1997
         
         
      TO: Honorable Kenneth Armbrister, Chair            IN RE:  House Bill No. 324, As Engrossed
          Committee on State Affairs                              By: Maxey
          Senate
          Austin, Texas
         
         
         
         
         FROM:  John Keel, Director    
         
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on HB324 ( Relating 
to the days and hours during which early voting by personal 
appearance is conducted in certain municipalities. ) this office 
has detemined the following:
         
         Biennial Net Impact to General Revenue Funds by HB324-As Engrossed
         
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
         

         
 
          
The bill would amend the Election Code to provide that in an 
election in which the city secretary serving a city with a population 
or 450.000 or more is the early voting clerk, and in which city 
all members of the governing body are elected on an at-large 
basis, early voting by personal appearance would be conducted 
on the same days and number of hours as personal appearance 
voting for general elections for state and county officers.

There 
would be a cost of increased personal appearance early voting 
in cities which have a population of 450,000 or more, as these 
cities would be required to conduct additional hours of early 
voting.
          
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                      LBB Staff:   JK ,JD ,PE ,JC