By Combs H.B. No. 1965 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to regulation of nuisances by a home rule municipality. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Amend Section 217.042(a) of the Local Government 1-5 Code to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The municipality may define and prohibit any nuisance 1-7 within the limits of the municipality and within 5,000 feet outside 1-8 the limits. This subsection applies to an area within the 1-9 extraterritorial jurisdiction of another municipality. 1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.