H.B. No. 1039
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the abolition of the office of elected county public
    1-3  weigher.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Agriculture Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 13.2535 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 13.2535.  LOCAL OPTION ELECTION TO ABOLISH OFFICE.  (a)
    1-8  The office of elected county public weigher is abolished in a
    1-9  county if the abolition is approved by a majority of the votes
   1-10  received at an election ordered under this section.  The
   1-11  commissioners court of the county shall order the election in the
   1-12  county if the court by order proposes that the office of elected
   1-13  county public weigher be abolished.  The commissioners court shall
   1-14  order the election to be held on the next authorized election date
   1-15  that occurs after the 45th day after the date of the court order
   1-16  proposing abolition of the office.
   1-17        (b)  The commissioners court shall order the ballot for the
   1-18  election to be printed to provide for voting for or against the
   1-19  proposition:  "Abolishing the office of elected county public
   1-20  weigher."
   1-21        (c)  The abolition of the office takes effect on the January
   1-22  1 following the date of the election.  After the abolition of the
   1-23  office, the commissioners court shall transfer to the department
   1-24  the records of the abolished office.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.