1-1     By:  Danburg, Denny, Madden (Senate Sponsor-Ellis)    H.B. No. 2336
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2001;
 1-3     May 3, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 8, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the distribution of federal funds made available to
 1-9     assist the state in the administration of elections.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Election Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 31.009 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 31.009.  DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL FUNDS. (a)  If federal
1-14     funds are made available to assist the state in the administration
1-15     of elections, including assistance for the phasing out or
1-16     prohibition of the use of punch-card ballot voting systems in this
1-17     state, the secretary of state shall administer and distribute the
1-18     funds as appropriate to most effectively facilitate the purposes
1-19     for which the funds are made available.
1-20           (b)  The secretary of state shall prescribe any necessary
1-21     rules and take any appropriate action to implement this section.
1-22           SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
1-23     condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
1-24     an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
1-25     requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
1-26     suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
1-27     take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
1-28     so enacted.
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