By Nixon S.B. No. 309 76R3959 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a limitation on buildings that may be used as a polling 1-3 place for certain elections. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Election Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 43.035 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 43.035. LIMITATION ON USE OF BUILDINGS AFFECTED BY 1-8 CERTAIN ELECTIONS. In an election for which a measure is submitted 1-9 to voters for approval of the issuance or assumption of bonds, a 1-10 polling place for the election may not be located in a building 1-11 that serves, or is directly connected to a facility that serves, a 1-12 purpose that is directly related to the purpose for which 1-13 expenditures may be made as a result of the election. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.