By West H.B. No. 1332 74R686 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the sale of copies of the permanent journals of each 1-3 house of the legislature. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 301.007, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The employee designated to distribute the journal of a 1-8 house of the legislature shall provide for the sale to the public 1-9 of copies of the permanent bound volumes of the journal. The 1-10 officer may require a person desiring to purchase the bound volumes 1-11 of the journal to place an order for those volumes before the 1-12 volumes are printed and may require the purchaser to pay in advance 1-13 for volumes ordered. The employee shall charge a person placing an 1-14 order for copies of the bound volumes an amount equal to the cost 1-15 of printing the volumes ordered plus an additional amount equal to 1-16 one-fourth of the cost of printing to cover the costs of 1-17 administering this subsection. Revenue from the sale of 1-18 subscriptions collected in excess of the total costs incurred in 1-19 administering this subsection shall be deposited in the state 1-20 treasury to the credit of the expense fund of the appropriate house 1-21 of the legislature. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.