73R8698 DWS-F
          By Saunders                                           H.B. No. 1967
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1967:
          By Chisum                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1967
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a county to hold a nonbinding
    1-3  referendum on matters affecting county property.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 291, Local Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 291.007 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 291.007.  NONBINDING REFERENDUM ON COUNTY PROPERTY
    1-8  MATTER.  The commissioners court of a county with a population of
    1-9  less than 40,000 may order a nonbinding referendum in the county on
   1-10  any matter affecting county property.  The referendum must be held
   1-11  on an authorized uniform election date as provided by Chapter 41,
   1-12  Election Code.
   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.