By Gallegos H.B. No. 1761 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of property development and development 1-3 plats by a zoned or unzoned municipality with a population of more 1-4 than 1.5 million. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 212.041, Texas Local Government Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 This subchapter applies only to a zoned or unzoned 1-9 municipality with a population of more than 1.5 million whose 1-10 governing body chooses by ordinance to be covered by this 1-11 subchapter or chose by ordinance to be covered by the law codified 1-12 by this subchapter. 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 separate 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.