By: Harris of Dallas S.B. No. 571 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the residency and citizenship qualifications for 1-2 holding a racetrack license under the Texas Racing Act. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6.06, Texas Racing Act (Article 179e, 1-5 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (i) 1-6 to read as follows: 1-7 (i) Subsections (c) and (d) of this section continue in 1-8 effect for a period of three years following the first racing date 1-9 granted by the commission. After that period, Subsections (c) and 1-10 (d) of this section no longer apply. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.