By: Stiles H.B. No. 569
73R1690 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 492.002(a), Government Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The board is composed of nine members appointed by the
1-7 governor with the advice and consent of the senate. <The governor
1-8 may not appoint more than two members who reside in an area
1-9 encompassed by the same administrative judicial region, as
1-10 determined by Section 74.042.>
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.