By Denny H.B. No. 833 76R3981 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the filing of an application for a place on the general 1-3 primary election ballot. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 172.022(b), Election Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) Not later than the day before the last day of the filing 1-8 period, the county chair shall post on the bulletin board used for 1-9 posting notice of meetings of the commissioners court a notice of 1-10 the address at which the county chair or secretary will be 1-11 available to receive applications on the last day of the filing 1-12 period. If both the county chair and the secretary will be 1-13 available, the notice must contain the address at which each will 1-14 be available. Section 1.006 does not apply to this subsection. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.