By Swinford H.B. No. 3199 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duties of the secretary of state. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 405.117, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection 6 to read as follows: 1-6 (6) perform such other and further duties as may be 1-7 directed by the governor. 1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-9 SECTION 3. 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.