By Giddings H.B. No. 1995
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of inmates serving sentences for first,
1-3 second, or third degree felonies to be confined in state jail
1-4 felony facilities.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 507.006(c), Government Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (c) This section expires September 1, 1995 <1997>.
1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15 passage, and it is so enacted.