By: Craddick H.B. No. 170 73R1776 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the composition of certain districts of the Texas House 1-3 of Representatives. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. (a) State representative districts 129 and 144, 1-6 as established by Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 3rd 1-7 Called Session, 1992, are modified by transferring blocks 604, 605, 1-8 608A, 608B, 610, and 611 of Harris County tract 0360.01 from 1-9 District 129 to District 144. 1-10 (b) In this section, "block" and "tract" have the meanings 1-11 assigned by Section 1, Article III, Chapter 2, Acts of the 72nd 1-12 Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1992. 1-13 SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that the 1-14 changes made by Section 1 of this Act apply to the districts served 1-15 by members of the house of representatives elected to the 73rd 1-16 Legislature under the plan ordered by the court for the 1992 1-17 elections in Terrazas v. Slagle, No. A-91-CA-425 (W.D. Tex.). The 1-18 legislature hereby asks that court to take any action necessary to 1-19 give effect to Section 1 of this Act on the earliest practicable 1-20 date. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.