By: Gallegos S.B. No. 253
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to conforming the Harris County Road Law to the Open
1-2 Meetings Act and other statutes applicable to meetings of
1-3 commissioners courts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 7, Chapter 17, Special Laws, Acts of the
1-6 33rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1913 (Harris County Road Law),
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 7. Meetings of <T>the Commissioners Court of Harris
1-9 county shall be in accordance with the Open Meetings Act (Chapter
1-10 551, Government Code) and any other provision of law <meet at the
1-11 courthouse of Harris County at 10 o'clock a.m. each Monday, or on
1-12 such regular day of the week as the court may fix in its rules, as
1-13 provided in Section 2, and may remain in session until the business
1-14 before the Court is transacted. This provision is cumulative of
1-15 all other laws> governing the convening of the commissioners'
1-16 court<, and no notice of such weekly meetings shall be 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.