Amend CSHB 2057 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1. Section 84.001, Election Code, is amended to read
as follows:
      Sec. 84.001. APPLICATION REQUIRED. (a) To be entitled to vote
an early voting ballot by mail, a person who is eligible for early
voting must make an application for an early voting ballot to be
voted by mail as provided by this title.
      (b)  An application must be in writing and signed by the
applicant.
      (c)  An applicant is not required to use an official
application form.
      (d)  An applicant may not use an application form that is
furnished to the applicant unless the application form is printed
or stamped with the name and official title of the early voting
clerk as addressee and the clerk's official mailing address.
      (e)  An applicant for a ballot to be voted by mail may apply
for ballots for the main election and any resulting runoff election
on the same application. The timeliness of the application for both
elections is determined in relation to the main election. However,
if the application is not timely for the main election, the
timeliness of the application for the runoff election is determined
in relation to that election.
      (f)  <(e)> A person who has not made an application as
provided by this title is not entitled to receive an early voting
ballot to be voted by mail.
      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.