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.
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