By Shields                                             H.B. No. 147
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to abolishing the school district property tax and
    1-3  dedicating all lottery revenue, some sales taxes and certain other
    1-4  statewide taxes to education.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  School district property taxes shall be abolished
    1-7  and monies from lottery revenue, some sales taxes and certain other
    1-8  statewide taxes shall be dedicated to education.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.