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.