By West H.B. No. 1333 74R685 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing for subscriptions to the daily journals of 1-3 each 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 of copies of 1-9 the daily journal to the public by subscription. The employee 1-10 shall require a person subscribing to the journal to pay in advance 1-11 for the subscription. The employee shall charge for a subscription 1-12 an amount equal to the cost of printing plus an additional amount 1-13 equal to one-fourth of the cost of printing to cover the remaining 1-14 costs of administering this subsection, including mailing costs. 1-15 Revenue from the sale of subscriptions collected in excess of the 1-16 total costs incurred in administering this subsection shall be 1-17 deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the expense fund 1-18 of the appropriate house of the legislature. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.