H.B. No. 126
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to county library privileges from an established library.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 323.011(a) and (b), Local Government
    1-5  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  Instead of establishing a county library, the
    1-7  commissioners court of a county may<, on petition of a majority of
    1-8  the voters in the county,> contract for library privileges from an
    1-9  established library.
   1-10        (b)  The contract must provide that the established library
   1-11  assume the functions of a county library within the county,
   1-12  including municipalities in the county, and must provide that the
   1-13  librarian of the established library hold or secure a county
   1-14  librarian's certificate from the Texas State Library and Archives
   1-15  Commission.  The commissioners court may contract to pay annually
   1-16  to the established library out of the general <county free library>
   1-17  fund of the county an amount on which the parties may agree.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.