76R9159 GGS-D By Hochberg H.B. No. 265 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 265: By Denny C.S.H.B. No. 265 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority with whom an application for a place on 1-3 the general primary election ballot for a legislative office is 1-4 required to be filed. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 172.022(a), Election Code, is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 (a) An application for a place on the general primary 1-9 election ballot must be filed with: 1-10 (1) the state chair, for an office filled by voters of 1-11 more than one county and for the office of state senator or state 1-12 representative; or 1-13 (2) the county chair or the secretary, if any, of the 1-14 county executive committee, for an office filled by voters of a 1-15 single county other than the office of state senator or state 1-16 representative. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.