By Uher                                                H.B. No. 802
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the election dates of certain navigation districts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 41.001(c), Election Code, as added by
 1-5     Section 20, Chapter 1349, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular
 1-6     Session, 1997, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  Except for an election under Subsection (a), [or]
 1-8     Section 41.0011, or Section 63.089, Water Code, an election may not
 1-9     be held  within 30 days before or after the date of the general
1-10     election for state and county officers, general primary election,
1-11     or runoff primary election.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.