1-1 By: Gallegos S.B. No. 253
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 17, 1995; January 19, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; February 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to conforming the Harris County Road Law to the open
1-9 meetings law and other statutes applicable to meetings of
1-10 commissioners courts.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 7, Chapter 17, Special Laws, Acts of the
1-13 33rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1913 (Harris County Road Law),
1-14 is amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 7. Meetings of the <The> commissioners' court of Harris
1-16 county shall be in accordance with the open meetings law, Chapter
1-17 551, Government Code, and any other provision of law <meet at the
1-18 court house of Harris county at 10 o'clock a.m. each Monday, or on
1-19 such regular day of the week as the court may fix in its rules, as
1-20 provided in Section 2, and may remain in session until the business
1-21 before the court is transacted. This provision is cumulative of
1-22 all other laws> governing the convening of the commissioners'
1-23 court<, and no notice of such weekly meetings shall be necessary>.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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