By Brimer H.B. No. 340 75R3130 BEM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the abolition of the Texas Department of Licensing and 1-3 Regulation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, 1-6 the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation, and the office of 1-7 commissioner of licensing and regulation are abolished. 1-8 SECTION 2. Article 9100, Revised Statutes, is repealed. 1-9 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.