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body shall order an election submitting 1-11 to the voters the question on whether this chapter should be 1-12 repealed.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.