By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 3054
76R8974 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain processes and procedures involving the
1-3 redistricting of congressional, legislative, and State Board of
1-4 Education districts.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 42.032, Election Code, is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 Sec. 42.032. REDISTRICTING: BOUNDARY CHANGES. A
1-9 commissioners court shall order [If] changes in county election
1-10 precinct boundaries when [are] necessary to give effect to a
1-11 redistricting plan involving the legislature, the United States
1-12 Congress, or the State Board of Education [under Article III,
1-13 Section 28, of the Texas Constitution, each commissioners court
1-14 shall order the changes before October 1 of the year in which the
1-15 redistricting is done].
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 276.008(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-17 read as follows:
1-18 (a) On the written request of the Texas Legislative Council,
1-19 the secretary of state, a county clerk or county elections
1-20 administrator, a city secretary, or a voter registrar shall provide
1-21 without charge to the council information or data maintained by the
1-22 appropriate officer relating to voter registration, voter turnout,
1-23 election returns for statewide, district, county, precinct, or city
1-24 offices, or county election precincts, including precinct maps.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.