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.