AN ACT 1-1 relating to the location of polling places and to certain ballots 1-2 for write-in voting. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 43.031, Election Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) A polling place may not be located at the residence of a 1-7 person who is: 1-8 (1) a candidate for an elective office, including an 1-9 office of a political party; or 1-10 (2) related within the third degree by consanguinity 1-11 or the second degree by affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, 1-12 Government Code, to a candidate described by Subdivision (1). 1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 125, Election Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 125.0611 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 125.0611. PROVIDING SEPARATE BALLOT PART FOR WRITE-IN 1-16 VOTING. (a) If an electronic system ballot includes a separate 1-17 write-in part under Section 124.064, that part shall be provided 1-18 with the electronic system ballot. 1-19 (b) A voter may not be required to request the separate 1-20 write-in part as a condition to being provided that part. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1832 passed the Senate on April 19, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1832 passed the House on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor