By Jones of Lubbock                                   H.B. No. 1701
       74R7064 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of certain of the state's congressional
    1-3  districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  (a)  This section applies to the congressional
    1-6  districts established by Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd Legislature,
    1-7  2nd Called Session, 1991.
    1-8        (b)  Block 107A of Williamson County tract 0208.98 is
    1-9  transferred from District 14 to District 21.
   1-10        (c)  Block 624 of Tom Green County tract 0010 is transferred
   1-11  from District 17 to District 21.
   1-12        (d)  Block 116 of El Paso County tract 0001.08 is transferred
   1-13  from District 23 to District 16.
   1-14        (e)  In this section, "block" and "tract" have the meanings
   1-15  assigned by Section 1, Article III, Chapter 7, Acts of the 72nd
   1-16  Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1991.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  The changes made by this Act apply to the
   1-18  election of the members of the Texas congressional delegation
   1-19  beginning with the general election in 1996 for members of the
   1-20  105th Congress.
   1-21        (b)  The changes made by this Act do not affect the
   1-22  membership or districts of the members of the Texas congressional
   1-23  delegation to the 104th Congress.  If a vacancy occurs in the
   1-24  office of a member of the Texas congressional delegation to the
    2-1  104th Congress and a special election is held to fill the vacancy,
    2-2  the election shall be held in the district as it existed when the
    2-3  vacating member was elected.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.