1-1  By:  Saunders (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)           H.B. No. 1967
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
    1-3  May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 12, 1993, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 12, 1993, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Armbrister         x                               
   1-10        Leedom                                         x   
   1-11        Carriker           x                               
   1-12        Henderson                                      x   
   1-13        Madla              x                               
   1-14        Moncrief           x                               
   1-15        Patterson                                      x   
   1-16        Rosson             x                               
   1-17        Shapiro            x                               
   1-18        Wentworth          x                               
   1-19        Whitmire           x                               
   1-20                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-21                                AN ACT
   1-22  relating to the authority of a county to hold a nonbinding
   1-23  referendum on matters affecting county property.
   1-24        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-25        SECTION 1.  Chapter 291, Local Government Code, is amended by
   1-26  adding Section 291.007 to read as follows:
   1-27        Sec. 291.007.  NONBINDING REFERENDUM ON COUNTY PROPERTY
   1-28  MATTER.  The commissioners court of a county with a population of
   1-29  less than 40,000 may order a nonbinding referendum in the county on
   1-30  any matter affecting county property.  The referendum must be held
   1-31  on an authorized uniform election date as provided by Chapter 41,
   1-32  Election Code.
   1-33        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-34  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-35  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-36  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-37  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-38  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-39  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-41                                                         Austin,
   1-42  Texas
   1-43                                                         May 12, 1993
   1-44  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-45  President of the Senate
   1-46  Sir:
   1-47  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-48  referred H.B. No. 1967, have had the same under consideration, and
   1-49  I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-50  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-51                                                         Armbrister,
   1-52  Chairman
   1-53                               * * * * *
   1-54                               WITNESSES
   1-55                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-56  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-57  Name:  Jim Allison                               x
   1-58  Representing:  County Judges & Comm. Assn Texas
   1-59  City:  Austin
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