By Giddings                                           H.B. No. 1995
       74R2773 GWK-D
                                 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.