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.