By: Chisum H.B. No. 1233 73R3937 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to emergency access to private land by persons designated 1-3 by a commissioners court of a county. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 11, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Chapter 360 to read as follows: 1-7 CHAPTER 360. MISCELLANEOUS COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY PROVISIONS 1-8 Sec. 360.001. EMERGENCY ENTRY ON PRIVATE LAND. The 1-9 commissioners court may authorize appropriate persons to enter 1-10 private land as the commissioners court determines necessary to 1-11 protect individuals or animals endangered by a natural emergency. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.