By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 779
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to allowing certain counties to establish a central
    1-2  mailing system.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code,
    1-5  is amended by adding Section 81.029 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 81.029.  CENTRAL MAILING SYSTEM IN COUNTIES WITH
    1-7  POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION.  The commissioners court of a
    1-8  county with a population of more than one million may establish a
    1-9  central mailing system to serve:
   1-10              (1)  district and county courts in the county,
   1-11  including the office of the clerk of the court;
   1-12              (2)  offices in the county of the judicial district in
   1-13  which the county is located; and
   1-14              (3)  offices and departments of the county.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.