1-1     By:  Denny (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)                  H.B. No. 833
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the filing of an application for a place on the general
 1-9     primary election ballot.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 172.022(b), Election Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (b)  Not later than the day before the last day of the filing
1-14     period, the county chair shall post on the bulletin board used for
1-15     posting notice of meetings of the commissioners court a notice of
1-16     the address at which the county chair or secretary will be
1-17     available to receive applications on the last day of the filing
1-18     period.  If both the county chair and the secretary will be
1-19     available, the notice must contain the address at which each will
1-20     be available.  Section 1.006 does not apply to this subsection.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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