S.B. No. 777
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to statutory construction.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Government Code, is
    1-4  amended by adding Section 311.006 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 311.006.  INTERNAL REFERENCES.  In a code:
    1-6              (1)  a reference to a title, chapter, or section
    1-7  without further identification is a reference to a title, chapter,
    1-8  or section of the code; and
    1-9              (2)  a reference to a subtitle, subchapter, subsection,
   1-10  subdivision, paragraph, or other numbered or lettered unit without
   1-11  further identification is a reference to a unit of the next larger
   1-12  unit of the code in which the reference appears.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 311.027, Government Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 311.027.  STATUTORY REFERENCES.  Unless expressly
   1-16  provided otherwise, a reference to any portion of a statute or rule
   1-17  applies to all reenactments, revisions, or amendments of the
   1-18  statute or rule.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  Subchapter A, Chapter 312, Government Code, is
   1-20  amended by adding Section 312.008 to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 312.008.  STATUTORY REFERENCES.  Unless expressly
   1-22  provided otherwise, a reference to any portion of a statute, rule,
   1-23  or regulation  applies to all reenactments, revisions, or
   1-24  amendments of the statute, rule, or regulation.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  Section 312.011, Government Code, is amended by
    2-2  amending Subdivision (12) and adding Subdivision (20) to read as
    2-3  follows:
    2-4              (12)  "Preceding federal census" or "most recent
    2-5  federal census" means the United States decennial census
    2-6  immediately preceding the action in question.
    2-7              (20)  "Population" means the population shown by the
    2-8  most recent federal decennial census.
    2-9        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.