By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 778
       74R5344 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to procedures for initiative and referendum.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The secretary of state by rule shall prescribe
    1-5  procedures necessary for the implementation of the powers of
    1-6  initiative and referendum.
    1-7        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on the date on which the
    1-8  constitutional amendment proposed by S.J.R. No. 34, 74th
    1-9  Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, takes effect.  If that
   1-10  amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect.
   1-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.