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.