By: Turner S.B. No. 729 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to designation of the Texas Agricultural Experiment 1-2 Station as administrator of federal-state census cooperative 1-3 programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 88, Education Code is amended by the 1-6 addition of Section 88.214, to read as follows: 1-7 Section 88.214. Administrator of the United States Bureau of 1-8 the Census Federal-State Cooperative. 1-9 The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station shall serve as the 1-10 official cognizant administrator for the State of Texas of the 1-11 United States Bureau of the Census federal-state cooperative 1-12 program for population estimates and the federal-state cooperative 1-13 program for population projections, and as coordinating agency for 1-14 the Texas State Data Center Program. 1-15 SECTION 2. Section 481.182(3), Government Code, is repealed 1-16 and the subsequent subsections of Section 481.182 are renumbered 1-17 appropriately. 1-18 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-19 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.