By Danburg, Janek                                     H.B. No. 2300
       74R6645 JSA-D                              PLANH807 022195 17:21:11
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of certain state representative
    1-3  districts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 134 and 137, Article II, Chapter 2, Acts
    1-6  of the 72nd Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1992, are revised to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 134.  District 134 is composed of Harris County tracts
    1-9  0408, 0409, 0410, 0411, 0413.01, 0413.02, 0417.01, 0417.02,
   1-10  0418.01, 0418.02, 0424.01, and 0425.01; and that part of Harris
   1-11  County tract 0416.01 included in blocks 801, 807, 808, 809, 810,
   1-12  811, 812, 813, and 814; and that part of Harris County tract
   1-13  0416.02 included in block groups 4, 5, 6, and blocks 702, 703, and
   1-14  704; and that part of Harris County tract 0416.05 included in
   1-15  blocks 101A and 101B; and that part of Harris County tract 0423.01
   1-16  included in block groups 6, 8, 9, and blocks 701, and 703; and that
   1-17  part of Harris County tract 0423.02 included in block group 9 and
   1-18  block 805; and that part of Harris County tract 0423.03 included in
   1-19  block group 5; and that part of Harris County tract 0423.06
   1-20  included in block group 5; and that part of Harris County tract
   1-21  0423.07 included in block groups 8 and 9 and blocks 702, and 703;
   1-22  and that part of Harris County tract 0424.02 included in block
   1-23  groups 5 and 7 and block 611; and that part of Harris County tract
   1-24  0425.02 included in blocks 203, 204, 315, 403, 404, and 405; and
    2-1  that part of Harris County tract 0425.03 included in block groups 2
    2-2  and 5 and blocks 115, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 601,
    2-3  602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614,
    2-4  615, 616, 617, 618, 619, and 621; and that part of Harris County
    2-5  tract 0425.04 included in block 114; and that part of Harris County
    2-6  tract 0426.01 included in block groups 2 and 3 and blocks 101, 102,
    2-7  and 103; and that part of Harris County tract 0426.02 included in
    2-8  block groups 1, 2, 4, 5, and blocks 301, 302, 303, 304, 307, 308,
    2-9  309, 310, 311, 313, and 314; and that part of Harris County tract
   2-10  0435.01 included in block group 9 and block 101; and that part of
   2-11  Harris County tract 0435.02 included in block groups 3, 4, 6, 7,
   2-12  and blocks 501, and 502; and that part of Harris County tract
   2-13  0436.01 included in blocks 527 and 528; and that part of Harris
   2-14  County tract 0437.22 included in blocks 401, 404, 405, 406, 501,
   2-15  and 502; and that part of Harris County tract 0438.04 included in
   2-16  blocks 403, 425, 801, 802, 803, 805, 806, and 807; and that part of
   2-17  Harris County tract 0438.06 included in blocks 501, 502, 503, and
   2-18  514; and that part of Harris County tract 0438.15 included in
   2-19  blocks 602, 643, 644, 645, 648, 649, and 650; and that part of
   2-20  Harris County tract 0438.25 included in blocks 102, 103, 112, 201,
   2-21  202, 203, and 309; and that part of Harris County tract 0438.32
   2-22  included in block group 1 and block 202; and that part of Harris
   2-23  County tract 0438.42 included in blocks 206, 207, and 208.
   2-24        Sec. 137.  District 137 is composed of Harris County tracts
   2-25  0401.01, 0401.02, 0402.01, 0402.02, 0403, 0404.01, 0404.02,
   2-26  0405.01, 0405.02, 0407.02, 0419.03, 0419.04, 0419.05, 0419.06,
   2-27  0506.01, 0514.01, 0514.02, and 0515.01; and that part of Harris
    3-1  County tract 0407.01 included in block groups 1 and 6 and blocks
    3-2  401, 403, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 417, 418,
    3-3  419, 420, 421, 422, 501, 502, and 504; and that part of Harris
    3-4  County tract 0416.01 included in block groups 6 and 7 and blocks
    3-5  802, 803, 804, 805, and 806; and that part of Harris County tract
    3-6  0416.02 included in block 701; and that part of Harris County tract
    3-7  0419.01 included in blocks 109, 110, 111, 112, and 113; and that
    3-8  part of Harris County tract 0423.04 included in blocks 106, 107,
    3-9  108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121,
   3-10  122, 123, 126, 310, 328, 402, 403, and 404; and that part of Harris
   3-11  County tract 0423.05 included in block groups 3 and 4 and blocks
   3-12  201, 202, 210, 211, and 213; and that part of Harris County tract
   3-13  0425.03 included in blocks 113, 114, 116, 117, 620, and 622; and
   3-14  that part of Harris County tract 0425.04 included in block group 2
   3-15  and blocks 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 112, and 113; and
   3-16  that part of Harris County tract 0505.01 included in blocks 801,
   3-17  802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814,
   3-18  815, 817, 818, 828, 829, 830, 831, 832, 834, and 835; and that part
   3-19  of Harris County tract 0505.02 included in blocks 601B, 613, 614,
   3-20  615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 628B, 629, 702, 703, 704,
   3-21  705, 706, 707, 708, 709, and 710; and that part of Harris County
   3-22  tract 0512 included in block groups 2 and 5 and blocks 118, 119,
   3-23  120, 121, 122, 123, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 310, 311, 312,
   3-24  313, 314, 315, 317, 318, 319, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419,
   3-25  420, and 421; and that part of Harris County tract 0515.02 included
   3-26  in block group 8 and blocks 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109,
   3-27  110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122,
    4-1  123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 202, 224, 228, and 229; and
    4-2  that part of Harris County tract 0516.01 included in blocks 224,
    4-3  410, 411, 412, 413, 414, and 415; and that part of Harris County
    4-4  tract 0516.02 included in block group 7.
    4-5        SECTION 2.  Section 1, Article III, Chapter 2, Acts of the
    4-6  72nd Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1992, is amended by adding
    4-7  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    4-8        (d)  In this Act, "block group" means all the blocks in a
    4-9  tract or BNA that have the same first digit, according to the
   4-10  Redistricting Map Data Base for the State of Texas described by
   4-11  Subsection (a) of this section.  A block group is designated by the
   4-12  common first digit of all the blocks in the block group.  For
   4-13  example, blocks numbered 301, 342A, 342B, and 399Z located in a
   4-14  single tract would all belong to the block group 3 for that tract,
   4-15  and all the blocks in that tract beginning with a 3 would
   4-16  constitute block group 3.
   4-17        SECTION 3.  (a)  The changes made by this Act apply to the
   4-18  election of the members of the Texas House of Representatives
   4-19  beginning with the general election in 1996 for members of the 75th
   4-20  Legislature.
   4-21        (b)  The changes made by this Act do not affect the
   4-22  membership or districts of the Texas House of Representatives of
   4-23  the 74th Legislature.  If a vacancy occurs in the office of a
   4-24  member of the Texas House of Representatives of the 74th
   4-25  Legislature and a special election is held to fill the vacancy, the
   4-26  election shall be held in the district as it existed when the
   4-27  vacating member was elected.
    5-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    5-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    5-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    5-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    5-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    5-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    5-7  passage, and it is so enacted.