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          By Krusee                                             H.B. No. 2519
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to animal control and enforcement by counties.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 826.014, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  County ordinances or rules adopted under this section
    1-7  may apply to all or any part of the county.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    1-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-14  passage, and it is so enacted.