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.