By Patterson S.B. No. 110 74R361 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the by-laws of nonprofit corporations. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section B, Article 2.09, Texas Non-Profit 1-5 Corporation Act (Article 1396-2.09, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), 1-6 is amended to read as follows: 1-7 B. A corporation's board of directors may amend or repeal 1-8 the corporation's by-laws, or adopt new by-laws, unless: 1-9 (1) the articles of incorporation, a by-law, or this 1-10 Act reserves the power exclusively to the members in whole or in 1-11 part; 1-12 (2) the management of the corporation is vested in its 1-13 members; or 1-14 (3) the members in amending, repealing, or adopting a 1-15 particular by-law expressly provide that the board of directors may 1-16 not amend or repeal that by-law. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.