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.
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             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.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1832 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor