1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 203
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 20, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 22, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 22, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Ellis
 1-8           Amend S.B. No. 203, SECTION 1, by adding at the end of
 1-9     Subsection (f), Section 31.039, Election Code (page 1, line 22),
1-10     the following:  "This subsection applies only to counties with a
1-11     population of one million or more that have an election
1-12     administrator."
1-13                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-14                                   AN ACT
1-15     relating to the restrictions on political activities of full-time
1-16     employees of a county elections administrator's office.
1-17           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-18           SECTION 1.  Section 31.039, Election Code, is amended by
1-19     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-20           (f)  A person employed on a full-time basis by the
1-21     administrator's office is subject to Section 31.035 in the same
1-22     manner as the administrator.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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