By: Henderson S.B. No. 505 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the regulation of property development and development 1-2 plats by a zoned or unzoned municipality with a population of more 1-3 than 1.5 million. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 212.041, Texas Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 This subchapter applies only to a zoned or unzoned 1-8 municipality with a population of more than 1.5 million whose 1-9 governing body chooses by ordinance to be covered by this 1-10 subchapter or chose by ordinance to be covered by the law codified 1-11 by this subchapter. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.