Amend HB 1140 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 16.003, Election Code, is amended to read
as follows:
      Sec. 16.003.  FELONY CONVICTION. (a)  Each month <both the
clerk of each court having felony jurisdiction and> the
institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
shall prepare an abstract of each final judgment <of a court served
by the clerk or> received by the institutional division, <as
applicable,> occurring in the month, convicting a person 18 years
of age or older who is a resident of the state of a felony.
      (b)  The <clerk and the> institutional division of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice shall file each abstract with the
voter registrar of the person's county of residence not later than
the 10th day of the month following the month in  which the
abstract is prepared.
      SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
      SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby
suspended.