By Janek                                               H.B. No. 629
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to conforming the Harris County Road Law to the Open
    1-3  Meetings Act and other statutes applicable to meetings of
    1-4  commissioners courts.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 7, Chapter 17, Special Laws, Acts of the
    1-7  33rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1913 (Harris County Road Law),
    1-8  is amended to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 7.   Meetings of <T>the Commissioners Court of Harris
   1-10  county shall be in accordance with the Open Meetings Act (Chapter
   1-11  551, Government Code) and any other provision of law <meet at the
   1-12  courthouse of Harris County at 10 o'clock a.m. each Monday, or on
   1-13  such regular day of the week as the court may fix in its rules, as
   1-14  provided in Section 2, and may remain in session until the business
   1-15  before the Court is transacted.  This provision is cumulative of
   1-16  all other laws> governing the convening of the commissioners'
   1-17  court<, and no notice of such weekly meetings shall be necessary>.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  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.