By Tallas                                             H.B. No. 2612
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the membership of the Coastal Coordination Council.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 33.203(2), Natural Resources Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (2)  "Council" means the Coastal Coordination Council,
    1-7  which shall consist of the commissioner, the attorney general, the
    1-8  chair of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, the chair of the Texas
    1-9  Water Commission, a member of the Railroad Commission of Texas, a
   1-10  member of the Texas Transportation Commission, the commissioner of
   1-11  agriculture, and one city or county elected official and one
   1-12  resident from the coastal area appointed by the governor for
   1-13  two-year terms.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.