H.B. No. 1948 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Partnership for Economic 1-3 Development. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 481.357, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (f) The partnership board may organize the partnership as a 1-8 nonprofit corporation under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act 1-9 (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) to carry 1-10 out the powers and duties of the partnership. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.