By Eckels                                              H.B. No. 462
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the person designated to dispose of abandoned or
    1-3  unclaimed property in a municipality.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Art. 18.17(f), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  For the purposes of this article, "purchasing agent of
    1-8  the municipality" means the person who is primarily responsible for
    1-9  making purchases on behalf of a municipality or a person designated
   1-10  by the municipality.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.