By Uher H.B. No. 802
76R1680 DRH-D
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.