By: Hudson H.B. No. 1672 73R6021 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an emergency appropriation to the institutional 1-3 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the 1-4 lease-purchase of correctional facilities. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. In addition to amounts previously appropriated 1-7 for the current fiscal biennium, the sum of $343 million is 1-8 appropriated to the institutional division of the Texas Department 1-9 of Criminal Justice from the general revenue fund for the two-year 1-10 period beginning on the effective date of this Act for payments on 1-11 lease-purchase contracts for maximum security units to be used to 1-12 confine inmates of the institutional division. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.