H.B. No. 2612 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.