1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 1832 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 23, 1999; March 24, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 April 9, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, 1-5 Nays 0; April 9, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the location of polling places and to certain ballots 1-9 for write-in voting. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 43.031, Election Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-13 (e) A polling place may not be located at the residence of a 1-14 person who is: 1-15 (1) a candidate for an elective office, including an 1-16 office of a political party; or 1-17 (2) related within the third degree by consanguinity 1-18 or the second degree by affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, 1-19 Government Code, to a candidate described by Subdivision (1). 1-20 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 125, Election Code, is 1-21 amended by adding Section 125.0611 to read as follows: 1-22 Sec. 125.0611. PROVIDING SEPARATE BALLOT PART FOR WRITE-IN 1-23 VOTING. (a) If an electronic system ballot includes a separate 1-24 write-in part under Section 124.064, that part shall be provided 1-25 with the electronic system ballot. 1-26 (b) A voter may not be required to request the separate 1-27 write-in part as a condition to being provided that part. 1-28 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-29 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *