By Oakley                                             H.B. No. 2403
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to elections in certain municipalities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 143.004(e), Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  If the governing body of a municipality that has
    1-7  operated under this chapter for at least one year receives a
    1-8  petition requesting an election to repeal this chapter that is
    1-9  signed by at least 10 percent of the qualified voters of the
   1-10  municipality, the governing body shall order an election submitting
   1-11  to the voters the question on whether this chapter should be
   1-12  repealed.  If a majority of the qualified voters vote to repeal
   1-13  this chapter, this chapter is void in the municipality.  As used in
   1-14  this Subsection, "qualified voters" means the municipality's
   1-15  registered voters, and not merely those voting in the repeal
   1-16  election.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-18  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.