1-1 By: Luna S.B. No. 779 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 1995; February 28, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 16, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to allowing certain counties to establish a central 1-9 mailing system. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 81, Local Government Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 81.029 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 81.029. CENTRAL MAILING SYSTEM IN COUNTIES WITH 1-14 POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION. The commissioners court of a 1-15 county with a population of more than one million may establish a 1-16 central mailing system to serve: 1-17 (1) district and county courts in the county, 1-18 including the office of the clerk of the court; 1-19 (2) offices in the county of the judicial district in 1-20 which the county is located; and 1-21 (3) offices and departments of the county. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *