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By Counts H.B. No. 783
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the powers and duties of the Automobile Theft
1-3 Prevention Authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11(c), Article 4413(37), Revised
1-6 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) Not later than August 1, 1997 <October 1, 1995>, the
1-8 authority shall determine the automobile theft rate as of July 1,
1-9 1997 <September 1, 1995>, and shall report the rate to the
1-10 lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of
1-11 representatives. If the rate is larger than the rate established
1-12 by the authority under Subsection (b) of this section, the
1-13 authority is abolished and contracts entered into by the authority
1-14 terminate effective August 31, 1997 <November 30, 1995>.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.