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.