1-1  By:  Henderson                                         S.B. No. 777
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1993; March 11, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  March 30, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 30, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas                              x    
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                        x    
   1-14        West                                          x    
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to statutory construction.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Government Code, is
   1-20  amended by adding Section 311.006 to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 311.006.  INTERNAL REFERENCES.  In a code:
   1-22              (1)  a reference to a title, chapter, or section
   1-23  without further identification is a reference to a title, chapter,
   1-24  or section of the code; and
   1-25              (2)  a reference to a subtitle, subchapter, subsection,
   1-26  subdivision, paragraph, or other numbered or lettered unit without
   1-27  further identification is a reference to a unit of the next larger
   1-28  unit of the code in which the reference appears.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 312, Government Code, is
   1-30  amended by adding Section 312.008 to read as follows:
   1-31        Sec. 312.008.  STATUTORY REFERENCES.  Unless expressly
   1-32  provided otherwise, a reference to any portion of a statute applies
   1-33  to all reenactments, revisions, or amendments of the statute.
   1-34        SECTION 3.  Section 312.011, Government Code, is amended by
   1-35  amending Subdivision (12) and adding Subdivision (20) to read as
   1-36  follows:
   1-37              (12)  "Preceding federal census" or "most recent
   1-38  federal census" means the United States decennial census
   1-39  immediately preceding the action in question.
   1-40              (20)  "Population" means the population shown by the
   1-41  most recent federal decennial census.
   1-42        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-43  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-44  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-45  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-46  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-47  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-48  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-50                                                         Austin,
   1-51  Texas
   1-52                                                         March 30, 1993
   1-53  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-54  President of the Senate
   1-55  Sir:
   1-56  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
   1-57  No. 777, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-58  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-59  pass and be printed.
   1-60                                                         Henderson,
   1-61  Chairman
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   1-63                               WITNESSES
   1-64  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 777.