By Madden H.B. No. 1577
76R6407 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the period for early voting by personal appearance.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 85.001(a) and (b), Election Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The period for early voting by personal appearance
1-7 begins on the 10th [17th] day before election day and continues
1-8 through the fourth day before election day, except as otherwise
1-9 provided by this section.
1-10 (b) For the general election for state and county officers,
1-11 an election held on the same day as the general election for state
1-12 and county officers, and the general [a special runoff election for
1-13 the office of state senator or state representative or for a
1-14 runoff] primary election, the period begins on the 17th [10th] day
1-15 before election day.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.