By Hochberg H.B. No. 160
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to repealing the prohibition against the use of temporary
1-3 housing for inmates in the institutional division of the Texas
1-4 Department of Criminal Justice.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. REPEALER. Section 501.111, Government Code, as
1-7 added by Chapter 655, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, Regular
1-8 Session, is repealed.
1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house is suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15 passage, and it is so enacted.