74R5169 JD-D
          By Gallegos                                            S.B. No. 253
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 253:
          By Chisum                                          C.S.S.B. No. 253
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to meetings of the Commissioners Court of Harris County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 7, Chapter 17, Special Laws, Acts of the
    1-5  33rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1913, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 7.  Meetings of the <The> commissioners' court of Harris
    1-8  county must be in compliance with the requirements <shall meet at
    1-9  the court house of Harris county at 10 o'clock a. m. each Monday,
   1-10  or on such regular day of the week as the court may fix in its
   1-11  rules, as provided in Section 2, and may remain in session until
   1-12  the business before the court is transacted.  This provision is
   1-13  cumulative> of all <other> laws governing the convening of the
   1-14  commissioners' court, including the open meetings law, Chapter 551,
   1-15  Government Code <and no notice of such weekly meetings shall be
   1-16  necessary>.
   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.