1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 971 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1999; March 9, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, 1-5 Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to participation by counties in an electronic voting pilot 1-9 project for military voters. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 105, Election Code, as added by Chapter 1-12 1349, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 105.003 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 105.003. INTERNET VOTING PILOT PROJECT. (a) Any 1-15 county selected by the United States Department of Defense may 1-16 participate in a federal voting assistance program pilot project to 1-17 allow members of the armed forces of the United States to cast 1-18 votes electronically. 1-19 (b) This section expires January 1, 2003. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-26 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-27 * * * * *