1-1 By: Homer (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 3257
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to allowing certain political subdivisions to change the
1-9 date of the general election for officers.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 41.0052(a), Election Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (a) The governing body of a political subdivision other than
1-14 a county may, not later than December 31, 1999 [1997], change the
1-15 date on which it holds its general election for officers to another
1-16 authorized uniform election date. An election on the new date may
1-17 not be held before 2000 [1998].
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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