By Rodriguez H.B. No. 377 75R2489 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a junior college district to enter 1-3 into a tax abatement agreement under the Property Redevelopment and 1-4 Tax Abatement Act. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 312.002, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) A junior college district may not enter into a tax 1-9 abatement agreement under this chapter. 1-10 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-11 (b) The change in law made by this Act does not affect the 1-12 validity of a tax abatement agreement entered into before the 1-13 effective date of this Act. A tax abatement agreement entered into 1-14 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 1-15 effect when the agreement was entered into, and the former law is 1-16 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.