By Saunders                                           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  MATTERS.  The commissioners court of a county may order a
    1-9  nonbinding referendum in the county on any matter affecting county
   1-10  property.
   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.