By Brown of Kaufman                                    H.B. No. 738
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the scope of certain election recounts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 212.131(a), Election Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), an initial recount
 1-7     in an election for which there is no canvass at the state level
 1-8     must include each election precinct in the election unless the
 1-9     recount petition requests that the recount be limited to certain
1-10     precincts.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.