By Cain                                               S.B. No. 1205
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to allowing certain political subdivisions to change the
 1-3     date of the general election for officers.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 41.0052(a), Election Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The governing body of a political subdivision other than
 1-8     a county may, not later than December 31, 1999 [1997], change the
 1-9     date on which it holds its general election for officers to another
1-10     authorized uniform election date.  An election on the new date may
1-11     not be held before 2000 [1998].
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  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.