By Brown of Kaufman H.B. No. 738 76R3663 DRH-D 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.