By Bivins S.B. No. 1832 76R10168 PAM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the location of polling places and to certain ballots 1-3 for write-in voting. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 43.031, Election Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) A polling place may not be located at the residence of a 1-8 person who is: 1-9 (1) a candidate for an elective office, including an 1-10 office of a political party; or 1-11 (2) related within the third degree by consanguinity 1-12 or the second degree by affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, 1-13 Government Code, to a candidate described by Subdivision (1). 1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 125, Election Code, is 1-15 amended by adding Section 125.0611 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 125.0611. PROVIDING SEPARATE BALLOT PART FOR WRITE-IN 1-17 VOTING. (a) If an electronic system ballot includes a separate 1-18 write-in part under Section 124.064, that part shall be provided 1-19 with the electronic system ballot. 1-20 (b) A voter may not be required to request the separate 1-21 write-in part as a condition to being provided that part. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.