By Raymond                                            H.B. No. 2173
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2173:
          By Granoff                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2173
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to providing venue restrictions in counties of less than
    1-3  2,000,000.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The heading of Article 45.22, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 45.22.  OFFENSES IN COUNTIES OF LESS THAN
    1-8  2,000,000 <225,000>; VENUE; FEE OF CONSTABLE; PENALTIES
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 4, Article 45.22, Code of Criminal
   1-10  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
   1-11        Sec. 4.  The provisions of this Article shall apply only to
   1-12  counties having a population of less than 2,000,000 <225,000 or
   1-13  over> according to the last preceding federal census.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-15  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-16  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-17  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-18  before the effective date.
   1-19        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-20  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-21  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.