1-1  By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1437
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the county registration of dogs.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 822.021, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 822.021.  APPLICATION TO COUNTIES THAT ADOPT SUBCHAPTER.
   1-13  This subchapter applies only to a county that adopts this
   1-14  subchapter by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the county
   1-15  voting at an election held under this subchapter.  This subchapter
   1-16  shall not apply to any county or municipality that enacts or has
   1-17  enacted registration or restraint laws pursuant to Chapter 826
   1-18  (Rabies Control Act of 1981).
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-25  passage, and it is so enacted.
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