By Yarbrough                                          H.B. No. 2057
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2057:
         By Hodge                                          C.S.H.B. No. 2057
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the form for an application for an early voting ballot
 1-3     to be voted by mail.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 84.001(c), Election Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  An applicant is not required to use an official
 1-8     application form.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  Section 84.011, Election Code, is amended by
1-10     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-11           (c)  The name and official title of the  early voting clerk
1-12     as addressee and the clerk's official mailing address must be
1-13     printed or stamped on each prescribed application form furnished
1-14     for use in a particular election.
1-15           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 4.  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.