By: Shapiro S.B. No. 971 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to participation by counties in an electronic voting pilot 1-2 project for military voters. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 105, Election Code, as added by Chapter 1-5 1349, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 105.003 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 105.003. INTERNET VOTING PILOT PROJECT. (a) Any 1-8 county selected by the United States Department of Defense may 1-9 participate in a federal voting assistance program pilot project to 1-10 allow members of the armed forces of the United States to cast 1-11 votes electronically. 1-12 (b) This section expires January 1, 2003. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.