By:  Blackwood                                         H.B. No. 492
       73R586 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of certain political subdivisions to
    1-3  contract with certain state agencies for the enforcement of traffic
    1-4  laws.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Section 1, Article 6687c,
    1-7  Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-8              (1)  "Political subdivision" means a home-rule
    1-9  municipality <city> with a population of not less than 100,000
   1-10  <150,000>, according to the most recent federal census.
   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,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.